Saturday Psychedelia Archives

Deb’s Psychedelic Saturdays – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 23

August 15, 2020

As the winter started coming to an end, Mt. St. Helens kept growing a bulge on her northwest side steadily, day by day. We watched all of the TV reports, read the newspapers and listened to the radio, waiting for the big day and hoping it wouldn’t be a disaster. The agency in charge of […]

Deb’s Psychedelic Saturdays – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 22

Deb Cavanaugh

August 8, 2020

Reconnecting with an Old Friend We were feeling quite settled in Portland. Jessie was loving kindergarten, and living right on a main bus route made life pretty easy. I took the kids to the library at least once a week, went to Saturday Market every weekend, had settled into my childcare routine, and we were […]

Deb’s Psychedelic Saturdays – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 21

Deb Cavanaugh

August 1, 2020

Music and Parenting At that time in my life, my life was once again filled with music. We continued to play at Saturday Market every weekend, sometimes both Saturday and Sunday. One day we were doing our usual thing when a TV crew came by. They were from Sapporo, Japan which is a sister city […]

Deb’s Psychedelic Saturdays – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 20

Deb Cavanaugh

July 25, 2020

Saturday Market Spring had sprung in the Pacific Northeast. The beautiful red flowers on the camellias start blooming in February. Being a gardener, I loved the fact that there were flowers most of the year. We had the best yard with two apple trees, a pear tree, two cherry trees, a plum tree and grape […]

Deb’s Psychedelic Saturdays – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 19

Deb Cavanaugh

July 18, 2020

Settling In Now that Paul was back home and I was back on my feet again, the sunnier weather started coming. Because Paul’s father had passed, he inherited a little money, not a ton but enough to catch back up, get a vehicle, have a little cushion and start moving forward. Paul also wanted to […]

Deb’s Psychedelic Saturdays – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 18

Deb Cavanaugh

July 11, 2020

We moved to 10605 East Burnside in Portland with the help of a couple of friends who drove from the city. Thankfully, we didn’t have a lot to move. The house we moved into was perfect. It had two bedrooms, a kitchen large enough for a table and chairs and a good-sized living room. It […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelica – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 16

Deb Cavanaugh

June 27, 2020

Paul and I both had to admit that Wyoming was gorgeous, but we were burning out fast. We were tired of being trapped in a cramped and fully packed car with our traveling companions, tired of juggling entertainment for a 2 ½ year old and just plain tired of being on the road. We had […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelica – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 15

Deb Cavanaugh

June 20, 2020

On Becoming a Hippie #15 – Kansas City Here I Come https://www.earthtrekkers.com/how-to-visit-gateway-arch-national-park-st-louis/ We stayed one night in Yellow Springs, Ohio where Debbie and Steve, our traveling companions, would stay for a visit with their friend. Getting to Kansas City from Ohio should have been pretty easy. It was only about 9 hours away, though we […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelica – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 14

Deb Cavanaugh

June 13, 2020

For me, one of the hardest things about making these big moves was leaving behind the people I had come to know and love. I’ve had to say goodbye to many friends over the years, and I think it’s hardened my heart a bit. On the other hand, it’s also enabled me to open up […]

Deb’s Saturday Psychedelica – On Becoming a Hippie – Chapter 13

Deb Cavanaugh

June 6, 2020

So now here we were back in my hometown, close to my family and Paul’s mother, back with our old friends. Luckily, our time out west had narrowed our circle of friends, enabling us to choose who to hang out with more wisely. At least, that’s what we thought. It was true to a […]