Megan
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Location | South Bay, California, United States |
| Introduction | My husband calls me a soccer mom, despite my distaste for the name. I'm told that the term doesn't literally mean a 'mother of a soccer-playing child' rather, it's descriptive of one's style. When we lived in a small community of hippies I really didn't see the correlation. I didn't mind wearing the same pants every day or only having 4 tank tops that I wore for the last three months of my pregnancy. Makeup? For who? My friends who hadn't showered in the past 3 days? But now...we have left the redwoods of Mendocino County. This is Saratoga. This is where the neighbor's home is on the market for 4 Million dollars. This is where we face serious changes. Thanks to Banana Republic and Gap's extraordinary sales, I'm now a somewhat trendier mom who stays at home with the baby while Marc goes to the office everyday. I already listened to Dave Matthews, John Mayer and Coldplay. Every once in a while it's Al Green or Stevie Wonder when there's romance in the air. And makeup, well, a dash of blush and a hint of eye shadow is normal now. This is a fresh start. With a 3 month old baby and the sweetest husband in the world, we set out for new adventures. Now in Saratoga, soon in Chicago. |
| Interests | pregnancy and motherhood, Africa, basking in the glory of California coastal redwoods, foreign missions, inner-city missions (unusual ones like Emmaus Ministries who reach out to male prostitutes) |
| Favorite movies | Memoirs of a Geisha, |
| Favorite music | Soccer Mom Mixes, Matisyahu, Bob Marley, Over the Rhine, Innocence Mission, Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson |
| Favorite books | Traveling Mercies (or frankly anything by Anne Lamott), The Secret Life of Bees, Memoirs of a Geisha, Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe), There's Always Enough (Heidi Baker), Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy, The Complete Works of Flannery O'Conner, The Poisonwood Bible, Red Moon Rising |
When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
Ahh, Mr. Huffsey. He never smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, but he was the odd yet interesting creator of the cleaning agent, 409.