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Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Retired
Location	Utah, United States
Introduction	I'm a single grandma, retired teacher, who is addicted to family history and photography.
Interests	My kids in-law kids and grandkids, Macintosh computers, Family history, Photography, Cats, Geology, Music (I mean real music!), Space science, Any science, All of the arts, Live theater, Math, most anything but money management
Favorite movies	Movies I enjoy every time I see them:, O Brother Where Art Thou, Pirates of the Caribbean, Out of Africa, Butch Cassady and the Sundance Kid, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Anything that stars Robert Redford, The In-Laws (original), Some Like It Hot, The Bridges of Madison County
Favorite music	First choices are Jazz, then Classical, but I like most anything, not hip-hop, not rap, not acid rock.
Favorite books	Books I enjoy reading over and over:, LDS Scriptures, Harry Potter Series, things written by the Eyre sisters, Cold Mountain, Maniac Magee, The Giver, most children's literature, anything by C.S. Lewis, anything by J.R.R. Tolkein, anything by Orson Scott Card

Sponges and tongues are frequently misspelled. Is it because both are thirsty?

Sponges and tongues are frequently misspelled because they aren't spelled like they sound. Why don't we spell them "spunjes" and "tungs"?