April 10, 1998

In Boston Garrett, with Pamela, explains his plans to change the world. She shares his feelings, but Garrett suffers a terrible loss when they visit Alaska.

March 20, 1999

The head wind is so strong at Balsams Wilderness that Garrett is able to ski parallel to the fall line, even on the steepest terrain, but when the wind suddenly abates, he is hurled forward and has to swerve into an almost perpendicular traverse. Whenever this happens, there’s Triple Diamond Jim, shushing innocently down to be blocked by Garrett’s mere survival efforts. 

November 1999

Garrett begins seeing Beth McClelland, a very wicked Witch from Salem, Massachusetts.

Boris Badanoff at Mount Abram is Garrett’s favorite, and at lunch the large cheeseburger heaped with well-cooked onions is superb and memorable.

April 6, 2000
At Waterville Valley, Garrett consoles a woman from New York City who is trapped in a place she is afraid to ski out of.

October 30, 2000 2000.

Beth brings curvaceous Rachel O’Connor when she comes to visit Garret. He enjoys them together in a way that transcends even his day at the castle in Albany, because these are real Witches.

January 21, 2001

At Gunstock, Garrett catches an edge while admiring the scenery, and has a bad fall on this family mountain. First ambulance ride.

March 1, 2001

At Ragged Mountain, Garrett skis a delightful glade that leaves him feeling very happy all the way home. 

March 19, 2001

King Pine is splendid, but his lower lumbar injury, since aggravated by snow shoveling, tires him out by 2:30 PM.

March 26, 2001
Shawnee Peak affords a magnificent view down the spine of the Presidential Range at a perfect distance. Garrett is fairly certain that he can smell the Atlantic Ocean as he looks across to the hills of coastal Maine. 

October 30, 2001

Beth and Rachel visit for two days with Britt Linstrum, Garrett feels happy for two weeks. 

January 2002 Full Moon Night

Garrett learns beyond any doubt that his new friend Hilton Armstrong can actually transform himself into a Werebear. They discuss the mutual advantage in this. 

March 3, 2002

Garrett enlists Hilton go to Norway on what he believes is the first mission of the Werebear.

March 13, 2003

Garrett thinks he may be too involved with Ervene, a tall witchy looking Jewish woman from Benton, New Hampshire. She affects his appetites in a very intense, but strange way. She claims to be a Libertarian, but doesn’t manifest the values in any tangible way. She introduces subject matter, invites Garrett’s agreement, then gets him wrong for agreeing. Garrett always feels spiritually tainted after talking with her.  

In Littleton Garrett learns that Ervene was married to a man who committed suicide six months later. It’s easy to imagine what must have happened. The terms psychic vampire and soul sucker come to mind. Garrett avoids her from here on, but not without a sense of having missed something. If only they could have had sex before he got to know her. 

September 2003
Garrett heads west and buys a nice little house in the hilly pine tree area of Reno, Nevada.  Eventually he begins to date Witches on short trips to Grass Valley and Nevada City California. 

October 2003
As his interest in films begins to grow, Garrett starts writing his first screenplay.

Samhain 2003

Garrett visits Salem and acts as Priapic Celebrant for Beth’s coven of thirteen. 

November 2003

While visiting Las Vegas, Garrett meets the writer Jay Farnum at UNLV. They decide to collaborate on a screenplay. 

December 3. 2003

Garrett gets an apartment in Burbank CA 

April 2006
Garrett visits New Hampshire and Vermont for some skiing closure and stays well into May.

August 2006

Garrett sells the house in Easton, He is well entrenched in the west now, and visits his Witches in Salem to say goodbye. 

September 2006
Garrett rents and stays for a while, in Lake Wildwood California in the Witch House.