Gender	Female
Occupation	Librarian
Location	Illinois, United States
Introduction	Married for 29 years with one grown daughter. Happily working in a small town library in Illinois.
Interests	Reading, paper crafts, jewlery making, soldering, digital art, knitting, sewing, anything with glue!, foraging for antiques, collecting paper, collecting junk, collecting useless things that someday, will become art, fairy tales, basically anything related to books, paper or fabric and I'm IN!
Favorite movies	So many...so many. Gone with the Wind, Con Air, Love Actually, The Wizard of Oz, Ever After, Wuthering Heights, Little Women, The Dark Knight, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Michael, Iron Man and the list goes on...
Favorite music	Jimmy Buffett, Mandy Patinkin, Ingrid Michaelson, Dylan, Lifehouse, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springstein, French music, Tom Petty, Musicals, all kinds, Jason Mraz, The Fray, The Beatles (of course), Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, The Who, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Alan Jackson, Billy Joel, Elton John, Garth Brooks, David Bowie, The Eagles...and still the list goes on
Favorite books	Again, too many to mention. I'll list some favorite authors instead. Ray Bradbury, Alice Hoffman, Bill Bryson, Anne Lamott, Michael Crichton.. Titles - The Shadow of the Wind, Alice in Wonderland, All Oz books, The Devil in the White City, blah, blah, blah

Lionesses have no manes. How do they know when they've grown up?

When they are able to remove the gunk from the sink strainer without gagging.