Here's a great skipping location skip tip from a skipper named Jim in Virgina...

Ever try skipping at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate and gardens? If you ever make it to Virginia, you should try it - lots of open spaces, great for skipping. In fact, that's what I'm going to be doing this morning! I go there all the time, and skip too. The gardens are beautiful, and very skipper friendly.

While I can't imagine Washington himself skipping there (well, at least *I* can't) , I'm sure Nelly and Washy Custis did, and I'm sure they weren't the only ones. ;)

While I haven't skipped in Virigina yet, I do have a few preferred skipping places these days...in the beautiful nature preserve behind my house...and on the trails in Sedona, AZ. Definitely a far cry from my more evangelical skipping days with megaphone in tow when I lived in downtown San Francisco!! That's for sure.

Would love to hear where your favorite place to skip is? Either leave a commment here or email me with YOUR favorite skipping locales. Skip on!

Back in 2000/2001, when the Internet bubble was still intact and iskip.com was really hopping, I met a fun fellow free spirit online named Randy Constan, also known as Peter Pan from his website Pixyland.org.

We connected because he saw a picture of a skipper on my website that he was hoping might be his Tinkerbell....and we have been "pen pals" ever since.

In 2001, Randy's website won the Webby Award for the "Weirdest Website on the Web" and he invited me to come to the gala awards ceremony as his guest. The theme for the night was "anything goes" so I wore a sparkly green dress, my SKIP on visor, and sported a smiley face fan and antannae! We had so much fun.

Well, after his long and diligent search, Randy recently emailed me to say he has finally found his Tinkerbell and is engaged to be married! Yay!

This morning I read this exclusive interview that Wired did with Randy..Imagine my surprise when I read this part...

Long distance relationships are indeed way tougher than I ever imagined, and in the end none worked out to be more than close friendships. But among them all I still have wonderful memories of meeting the "skipper" grrl (Kim, from Iskip.com). It was shortly after we met on-line that I was invited to the Webby Awards with an all expense paid trip, and so we went there together. That was back in 2001. We went to a party put on by the people who manage Burning man the next night. What a party that was!

Reading that made my day and brought back such fun memories! Yay! Thanks Randy....and a huge congratulations to you and Dorothy! May you skip happily everafter. :-)

As you've probably heard by now, there was recently a major oil spill in San Francisco after an oil tanker hit the Bay Bridge.

If you live in the Bay Area, the Marine Mammal Center is looking for volunteers to help save oiled birds by preapring food, building chages, answering phones, etc. For more information call 800-228-4544.

And this just in from another friend...

Hi Kim: I am volunteering for a nonprofit who is helping to alleviate the suffering of birds and other shore animals. Would you be willing to announce in some way their request for memberships and donations? Their website is www.wildcarebayarea.org A basic membership is $35.00. They are in dire need of clothes pins, ceramic feeding bowls and heating pads which have temperature control dials. Thank You Kindly!