Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Teaching
Location	Idaho, United States
Interests	I'm a Daughter, Sister, Wife, and also a wonderfully blessed Mother of 4, Stepmom to 2, and Grandmother to 14 wonderful sweetie-pies. Now I have a great-granddaughter who is 3 months old and another great-granddaughter on the way! I feel young to be a great-grandma, but am grateful for a new generation in our family. I've been married to the love of my life for almost 29 years. I love collage art, and now die-cutting with Tim Holtz products, old photos, old books, and antiques. I have a special place in my heart for everything vintage. I also love Reading, Writing, Gardening, Knitting, and Poetry.
Favorite movies	Dr. Zhivago, Casablanca, Somewhere in Time, To Kill a Mockingbird, Moonspinners, To Sir With Love, Chocolat, The Wizard of Oz, Dances With Wolves, Big Night, Sound of Music, Three Lives of Thomasina, Heidi (Shirley Temple), Big Fish, Crash, Last of the Mohicans
Favorite music	Beatles, Motown, Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Beach Boys, Sting, Green Day, Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, , Classical, Country
Favorite books	Catcher in the Rye, The Inn at Lake Devine, The Magician's Nephew, Gift from the Sea, The Secret Garden, The Velveteen Rabbit, Ethan Frome, Lord of the Rings, Walden, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, New favorites: The Year of Magical Thinking, Blackbird House, All of the Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket books, love Kate DiCamillo's books too. I read a lot--love libraries.

You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?

In my own backyard. "... if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!" (Dorothy in "The Wizard of OZ")