Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Middle School Teacher
Location	Midwest, United States
Introduction	Photo Note: Holding my beautiful, precious, adorable, amazing pseudo-niece, Zoë, in Chicago (April 2011) I'm a teacher. I laugh at myself a lot. I edit everything I read (unintentionally). I believe in life-long learning, so I now hold four degrees. I don't believe "liberal" is a bad word anymore than I believe "conservative" attaches itself to morality. I read the news with a fervor. I would rather cook a great meal than go out to eat, yet I hate to shop for groceries. I love coffee. I could listen to music 24/7.
Interests	God, Matt, Cameron, family, great literature, American history, writing, music, movies with compelling plots, cooking, politics, law, gardening, itunes, anything red, snowmen, easy sewing patterns, decorating, and traveling.
Favorite movies	Amadeus, August Rush, A Beautiful Mind, The Breakfast Club, A Christmas Story, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Crash, Dead Poet's Society, E.T., Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, A Few Good Men, Field Of Dreams, Fight Club, The Godfather, The Green Mile, Hoosiers, The Hunt for Red October, Jakob the Liar, Jerry Maguire, Jurassic Park, Kramer vs Kramer, Lean on Me, The Little Mermaid, Memento, Mississippi Burning, The Music Box, Napoleon Dynamite, National Treasure, The Notebook, Office Space, The Pianist, Platoon, The Princess Bride, Rain Man, The Red Violin, Remember the Titans, A River Runs Through It, Rudy, Saving Private Ryan, Say Anything, Schindler's List, Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Shawshank Redemption, The Sixth Sense, Sling Blade, Stand by Me, Top Gun, The Truman Show, When Harry Met Sally
Favorite music	ABBA, ACDC, Barenaked Ladies, Beatles, Joshua Bell, James Blunt, Caedmon's Call, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Eva Cassidy, Chris and Johnny, Eric Clapton, Coldplay, Shawn Colvin, Harry Connick Jr., Creed, The Cure, John Denver, Depeche Mode, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Nancy Griffith, Sara Groves, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, Indigo Girls, Etta James, Jars of Clay, Jewel, Billy Joel (The Piano Man!), Jack Johnson, Norah Jones, KORN, Madonna, Manhattan Transfer, Richard Marx, Sarah McLachlin, John Mellancamp, Metallica, Tom Petty, Queen, Paul Simon, Sixpence None the Richer, Smashmouth, Michael W. Smith, Sting, Barbara Streisand, James Taylor, U2, Andrew Lloyd Weber, George Winston
Favorite books	The Holy Bible, Calvin and Hobbes (all of them), Shakespeare (all plays and sonets), Angels and Demons - Dan Brown, Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling, The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch, The Left Behind Series - LaHaye and Jenkins, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong - James W. Loewen, The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks, Savage Inequalities - Jonathan Kozol, The Shack - Wm. Paul Young, The Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, All But My Life - Gerda Klein, The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach, The Color Purple - Alice Walker, Pat Conroy's books, Night - Elie Wiesel, The Sunflower - Simone Wiesenthal, To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee, Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare, Bambi - Felix Salten The Diary of Anne Franke, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith, The Boxcar Children series - Gertrude Chandler Warner, Charlotte's Web - E.B. White, Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

Please describe how you could take the peel off an apple all in one go:

"Here’s to the crazy ones. The rebels. The troublemakers. The ones who see things differently. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." (Apple modified Ad)