Gender	Female
Industry	Real Estate
Location	Connecticut, United States
Links	Audio Clip
Introduction	The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, "On Being Real": "What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt." "Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
Favorite movies	The Wizard of Oz, Independence Day, Zeffirelli's (1968) Romeo & Juliet, All the Ocean's movies, Star Wars series, Lord of the Ring series, Indiana Jones series & similar - Jewel of the Nile, Lara Croft movies; anything with: Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina, Renee Zelweger, Mike Myers
Favorite music	Dinosaur Rock - CCR, Doobies, Steve Miller Band, Dan Fogelberg, Janis Joplin, Alman Bros, CSN&Y; female jazz vocalists especially Jane Monheit
Favorite books	Gone with the Wind all-time favorite; ABC series by Sue Grafton; anything written by: Janet Evanovich, Stephen King, Stuart Woods, Grishom, Cornwell, both Pattersons, Kellerman, Harris, Connelly, JL Burke, Cornwell, Balducci, Hoag, Edna Buchanan, Reichs, Paretsky, Sanford, Koonz, Iris Johansen, more. Prefer mystery, thrillers, scifi, horror, and really good stories. I'm an audiobook addict!

The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. M. Kathleen Casey