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Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation mother, wife, granny, teacher, Owner Tygerheart Fine Soaps
Location Upstate, South Carolina, United States
Introduction Howdy, I'm a retired 31-year veteran of the high school science classroom. Before that, I was in textile research a few years after graduating from college. My entire teaching career has been serving the community in which I was reared. I remember hearing when I was little that you can’t go home again, and that scared me, so I stayed put. I have lots of interests, but years ago my favorite hobby, soap making, turned into a little side business, Tygerheart Fine Soaps. Since retiring I teach soapmaking during hands-on workshops. I also write short stories and historical fiction for my children in which I try to weave in a little of our genealogy.
Interests Hammock weaving, Soap making, Teaching chemistry, Softball, Playing with the grandbaby, Entering writing contests, Hub City, Appalachia, Carolina Writers, poetry, the history of the Kuykendall family (if you're one, we're kin).
Favorite Movies Madame Curie, October Sky, Rocky, World's Fastest Indian, Cool Hand Luke, 300
Favorite Music Pretty much anything.
Favorite Books Refuge-A Novel, Outlander, Middlesex, One Foot in Eden, Beloved, The Grapes of Wrath, This Rock, Nor the Battle to the Strong, Serena, Carolina Writers, Ron Rash, Robert Morgan, Diana Gabaldon