Hello! I'm an avid reader and finally got around to checking out this site after finding the clipping stashed in my ever-growing pile of clippings.

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, particularly women's history and history of the US westward movement in the 19th century. I also enjoy sociology and study of Americana.

Fiction favorites include Edith Wharton, Pearl S. Buck, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood and Gail Tsukiyama. Plus about a billion others!

Just got started reading mystery novels, especially during my pregnancy and recent birth of my son, Caleb (see picture).

I love to travel and have always dreamed of travelling to the Antarctic... too bad I didn't study something scientific or I could have gone there to work! I intended to become a meteorogist until my lack of mathematical aptitude got in the way.

Probably no one is going to read this so who cares what I write, right?

Likes:
-reading
-breaking out the sweaters and coats when autumn rolls around
-watching a little too much tv and drinking a little too much beer
-silk bedding
-playing the radio in the car very very loud
-listening to car talk on NPR (well, everything on NPR except Lake Woebegon)
-having my back scratched
-carrying a passport
-the movies 'Yours, Mine and Ours" & "Father Goose"
-planning things and making LISTS

Dislikes:
-public restrooms
-washing dishes
-paper cuts
-feeling hot, unless I'm on a beach or at the pool
-my temper
-litter
-waterbugs (big flying cockroach things) - YUUUUK!!!!

OK. Time to go. Buh bye.