Gender	Female
Occupation	artist and teacher
Location	Taylor Mill, Kentucky, United States
Introduction	Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. - Mary Oliver
Interests	making art, mixed media art, printmaking, gardening, learning, photography, log house reconstruction, hiking, nature conservation, sustainability, oneness
Favorite movies	Cold Mountain, Little Big Man, The War, American Beauty, The Big Lebowski, Mad Men, Northern Exposure, The Planet Earth, Exit Through the Gift Shop, In America, Out of Africa, The Lord of the Rings
Favorite music	Steve Earle, Adele, Florence and the Machine, Fleet Foxes, Thea Gilmore, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, The Beatles, Jayhawks, Lucinda Williams, Birdy, Josh Ritter, Stellamara
Favorite books	Cold Mountain, The Hunger Games Trilogy, His Dark Materials Trilogy, anything by Barbara Kingsolver (esp. Poisonwood Bible) or Alice Hoffman, a Short History of Nearly Everything, Eat Pray Love, Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver

When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?

No. I wasn't worried, because according to the Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy, the petals will always exist in some form. Besides, it was almost lunch time.