Gender	Female
Occupation	Writer/Online Fitness Coach
Location	Southwest, United States
Introduction	I grew up in a big family on a dairy farm in a little town in New York State. My husband and I moved to southern Utah in 2007. Big change, but a good one. There have been so many positives associated with it! I'm a writer and certified personal trainer, corrective exercise specialist, fitness nutrition specialist, and online fitness coach. I started out writing poetry and plays in elementary school. Dabbled in short stories, and eventually wrote a nonfiction book manuscript that I am forever changing. I have written many articles for community newspapers, magazines, newsletters, websites, and blogs, and enjoy it very much. I fell into fitness several years ago. I'd always had a hand in it, taking a fitness class in college, walking outside and on a treadmill, doing some aerobic exercise, etc., but things really picked up when I decided to join a gym. I fell in love with fitness! In 2009, I decided to take things a step further and got certified as a personal trainer. I've had health issues all my life, so what a rush that was! I hope to connect with people with similar interests, share ideas, make new friends.
Interests	fitness, writing, volunteering, pets (we have six cats and a bird), theatre, community, friends, amateur photography, nature, travel, New Age
Favorite movies	Lord of the Rings trilogy, Scrooge (1951), comedies that make me laugh from way down deep, musicals
Favorite music	rock--80's to today,blues, classical, reggae, Celtic, many (depends on my mood)
Favorite books	The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien,New Age,Self-improvement, books by Elizabeth Berg, Loretta LaRoche, Richard Paul Evans, Mitch Albom, Anne Tyler,and many others

In the dream where you show up to school naked, why do you never go swimming?

I don't know how to swim. Maybe that's a sign I should learn!