Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Organizational researcher
Location	Between Sacramento and Phoenix, Northern California, United States
Introduction	Writer. Wife. Student pilot. Professor in the making. Dreamer. Attempted gardener. Award-winning teacher, researcher and academic author. Play photographer. Cupcake aficionado. Messy cook. Aviation enthusiast. California girl. Traveler. Sometime Twitterer, @bluestmuse. Prolific emailer, bluestmuse(at)gmail(dot)com.
Interests	Words, photography, design, writing, reading, cooking, gardening, loving, people watching, teaching, coffee, tortoises, flying, sleeping
Favorite movies	Willy Wonka (with Gene WILDER), Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Oscar, Wedding Crashers, Office Space, Labyrinth, Love Actually, Pulp Fiction, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Color Purple, Pride & Prejudice, Cry Baby, Singing in the Rain
Favorite music	Oldies, funk/soul, classical, alternative, some country, some hip hop
Favorite books	Atlas Shrugged, Pride & Prejudice, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Twilight Series (No, I am not ashamed to admit it), Memoirs of a Geisha, The French Bride, In Cold Blood, Constructing Grounded Theory, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Candide

Your pajamas have duckies on them. Why did you switch from choo-choos?

This question presumes I own pajamas.