June Wilkinson
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
I first met June Wilkinson at the Hollywood Collectors Show on Saturday, June 8, 1997. At that time, I was more into the Playboy connection, and was seeking out autographed photos of the Playmates. She was one of the classics to be sure, having appeared in a spread in June of 1958. She told me that she was only seventeen during the shoot and consequently, her spread didn’t appear until after her 18th birthday. I learned another little tidbit about the shoot that day as well – from Hugh Hefner himself. Read the rest of this entry »
This posting will be the last in the series of ‘missing links’ of 2006. I began the website on September 13 and thereafter chronicled two vacations from the summer that had just ended, but didn’t pick up the time period in the middle, so here I bridge the gap between August 6 and September 12. My Myrtle Beach posting did mention that in between the two vacations I opened our first Marketplace store on July 20 and that Ashleigh attended the NYC (National Youth Conference) week in Colorado of July 23-28. We left for Myrtle Beach the next day. What it did not mention was that Briana spent her first week at Woodland Altars from July 16-22. 
First of all, another disclaimer. The pictures that go along with the posting (and most particularly the humorous one of Briana at right) do not in any way, shape, or form tell my story from this time period. They just happen to be the only pictures at all that exist of this time period, showing what Ashleigh was snapping away with her camera, while I was on the literal verge of snapping. This posting will cover the segment of my life from March 26 thru July 7, 2006. It was assembled with a heavy reliance on old emails, jottings in my work calendar, and my own memories. It tells of what I consider to be my great transformation from one person into an entirely different person in matter of three months. 
The first six months of 2006 can be told in what amounts to a two-part story. I first began this website on September 13 of that year, after I had begun what I perceived as a ‘new life’. By the time I had reached that point, I had very little resemblance to the person I had been for the last few years – neither physically, mentally, or spiritually. The catharsis had come about as a result of six months of various injections of misery that seemed to bombard me from every facet of my life. Although the memories would have been much fresher when I began this site, at the time I had no intention of ever really chronicling my life so in-depth – so I began my 2006 odyssey with the summer vacations of that year. Incidenatally, most of the photos I am sharing here have little to do with the major events of this time period, but were mostly all taken by Ashleigh during this time period with her new camera that she had gotten from her Big Daddy for Christmas upon her return from vacation. 