Gender	Female
Occupation	Poet, lifestyle blogger, cookbook writer, fun seeker
Location	High Desert, CA, United States
Introduction	I'm a licensed clinical social worker, just transitioning to a full-time RV lifestyle: sightseeing, taking pictures, and cooking outdoors! I love competition BBQs; chili cookoffs; potlucks; Farmers' Markets; sampling local cuisine; and creative "off the shelf" cooking. Favorite wood smoke flavor: MESQUITE.
Interests	Writing; BBQing, outdoor dinners and board games with friends; Book-TV, writing, social science, anthropology, and all the science shows on TV!
Favorite movies	The Departed (or anything with DiCaprio);Proof of Life (or anything with Crowe); Memoirs of a Geisha; Jurrasic Park; Hope Floats (or anything with Connick, Jr.) Joy Luck Club.
Favorite music	Oldies (50's-80's); edgy country; fusion jazz (think "The Wave");acoustic guitar;latin dance music.
Favorite books	Audiobook editions of whatever I feel like that week. Favorites in the past include: Call of the Wild;Year of Wonder;Sandra Brown novels;social science tomes:Sookie Stackhouse series;The Stuff of Thought; Black Swan.