Zen Rebel Diaries

I'm Dina. Writer, musician, artist. Generation Jones — too young for the Boomers, too old for Gen X, shaped by both and belonging to neither.

I was in the clubs at 17 — the Peppermint Lounge, Hurrah's — when NYC punk was turning into something nobody had a name for yet. Then the Sunset Strip, working the Rainbow Bar and Grill when it was GnR and everything bleeding around it. Nirvana came and ended that whole world. I landed in San Francisco and stayed for when Britpop, acid, and ecstasy all hit at once. 

Then twenty-five years in corporate IT — not who I was, but how I built the life I have. Now I live in the North Florida backwoods with my dog Lula, doing döstädning — Swedish death cleaning — documenting each piece of the archive before it disperses. No nostalgia. Just the stories and observations that I want to share before they're gone.

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