Ellyn in Paradise
Cancun 2000

".....a vibrant, energetic, and celestial former hippie who grew up in the turbulent, tie-dyed rainbow-coloured era of the 60's.

I remember my first Grateful Dead show in '68, having a lava lamp, wearing 13 button Landlubber bell-bottomed jeans, drawing smiley faces, buying my first red VW Bug, hitch-hiking to San Francisco, heading for Woodstock and ending up in Ann Arbor, wearing flags, burning bras, burning incense, going to Haight-Ashbury, the Fillmore, wearing patchouli oil, Zap Comic Books, magic mushrooms, orange sunshine, and window pane, the Beatles White Album, wearing flowers in my hair, hanging psychedelic posters on every wall, working in head shops, digging Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey, going on war protests, marching for peace, hanging out in the Loop, spending a summer in New Mexico, wearing puka shell necklaces, those big ole' bongs, following the Dead, seeing Blind Faith and Janis Joplin live, listening to the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin, painting peace signs on my walls, buying a red, white, and blue VW van with a painted-on peace sign for 200 bucks, wearing tie dyed shirts, buying Zig-Zags, and wearing love beads.

Wistfully I still think about those days.

I listen to today's lively music as well as to tunes from the 70's;

I love traveling to Cancun, and enjoy being with my family.

I embraced the 80's and lived grounded in the Nineties........

I have come full circle in life, and now enjoy soaring through cyberspace while spiraling into this new millennium....."