About Me!

1. What is your favorite book for kids… something you would like to use in your future classroom? Why do you like it?
Not a fair question! I love too many to count. My favorite Christmas presents were a stack of picture books on my Amazon Wish List. Cute and fun right now I love The Biggest Thing In The Ocean. It's about perspective and looking on the bright side. Another, and this one I gave to my parents for Christmas. It's called The Empty Pot and it's a beautiful book about how your best will always be good enough.

2. Name your three favorite T.V. shows, even if you don’t have time to watch them! What can you (or what are you willing to) tell me about your T.V. viewing habits? I’ll tell you mine if you’ll tell me yours! I loved The Office...but have given it up recently because it got too dirty for my tastes. I used to love a show called Pushing Daisies (really beautiful show with a lovely color palate and style about a man who can bring things back to life but can't touch them again or they die...he brings his girlfriend back to life but can never touch her...and he solves murder mysteries with a private detective by bringing the victims to life an asking them questions and then redeading them). The show got cancelled after two seasons. Bummer! My roommates love a new show called Modern Family and I like watching it too, when I have time.

3. Do you collect anything? Tell about your collections:
I collect aprons. I love things to do with the '50s (well not racism) but the classic, cozy, idea of a mommy in a kitchen and someone to come home to with cookies and a smile and warm hug. Some of them I have purchased from antique stores and some were inherited from my grandmother.

4. Do you keep any kind of a journal (or blog?) besides this one? Tell me about it, and what you like to write about:
I do keep journals and blogs. I have a blog that is public that I keep with pictures and thoughts. It usually contains my musings. I started it because I was sick of feeling like I needed to be married or have children to post about in order to have a blog. I have interesting things to share and I share them. I also have a private blog I keep documenting an interaction (or more) I had with a lovely other human being that day. Sometimes it is just positive and gratitude filled and sometimes it is negative with musings and lessons learned or what to do differently in the future. People are very important to me and I want to be a part of their lives.

5. If you had to be the sponsor of an after-school group, select your 1st, 2nd & 3rd choices:
__ contemporary moral issues __peer relationships
__national security __world peace
__career opportunities & choices __art or music appreciation
__gender issues __ethnicity issues
__death & dying 2 sports
3 book club 1 writers group
__ecology __tutoring

6. Have you ever taken art lessons or attended art classes outside of school? Tell about your artistic talent and/or interests:
I bought a sketch book once. I liked doing pencil drawings and think I could be pretty goo if I really tried. I liked working on shading. I had a friend tell me once that drawing is as much about what you don't put down on paper as what you do (referring to the light and dark spaces on a paper and how no lines in nature are actually lines...like drawing a jaw line or a nose).

7. Have you ever taken music lessons or belonged to musical groups outside of school? Tell about your musical talent and/or interests:
I can sing. I was in choir in high school and in my religious group. I learned to play the piano but it would take a while for me to polish that up and I played the violin as a kid.

8. Have you ever taken dance lessons or belonged to dance groups? Tell about your dance talent and/or interests:
I grew up in dance until junior high. My parents knew I'd be tall and wanted me to be graceful and have control over my body. It was fun but I never felt like I fit in.

9. Have you ever taken drama classes or performed in a theater production? Tell about your theater talents and/or interests:
I took an acting class for fun once (the cute boy I liked at the time wanted to take it). It helped me get a little out of my comfort zone and my teacher liked me. I think he thought I was a pretty good phsical comedien because my facials and body language are fairly overt.

10. What have I not asked you, that you would like me to know about you?
You have not asked if I am a happy person and the answer is yes. I am so excited about knowing what I want to be when I grow up, finally, that I'm bursting at the seems. Also, happiness is a choice and I chose it a long time ago!