- I LOVE popcorn for dinner
- I sometimes refer to lunch as dinner and dinner as supper
- There is nothing better than a thunderstorm - and I mean a window-shaking thunderstorm
- I like tornado weather
- One of my favorite things to do is walk through a creek barefooted
- A freshly ploughed field creates an inexplicable warmth and hunger in my stomach
- Real tomatoes are big enough to eat just one for lunch
- Pimento cheese makes a good sandwich
- There's nothing wrong with a casserole made from Cheez Whiz once in a while
- Gravy is a food group, but not just any gravy
- "Show Me" is not just a motto but a way of life
I believe in reincarnation within a single lifetime. I've lived several already myself. My first lifetime was as a very awkward skinny girl who could live in nothing but jeans and a t-shirt and read nothing but Thomas Hardy novels.
My second lifetime was a participant observing French major in B'ham, Washington. I married a man and spent a lot of time trying to figure out my place in the world by watching others.
My third lifetime has been spent learning to participate more than observe. I tried to make this a science by getting a Masters in Anthropology. Now I'm married to a woman, living in P-Town where "Keep it weird" is more than a motto.
Oh wait, I think I've just started my fourth lifetime! I'm now living as a full-time student of Chinese medicine. We shall see where this adventure will take me.
Oh wait, I think I've just started my fourth lifetime! I'm now living as a full-time student of Chinese medicine. We shall see where this adventure will take me.
Some major life accomplishments in no particular order:
- Catching a 10 lb channel cat on a cane pole
- Learning to eat cheeseburgers with my jaw wired shut
- Climbing Church Mountain not once but twice
- Biking through northern France on pastries and Nutella
- Sitting by a wood stove in a handmade adobe kitchen listening to the stories of an amazing woman in rural Peru
- Travelling to Peru without visiting the Nazca Lines or Machu Picchu, twice
- Driving through the Yucatan in a rental car
- Making it through college and an MA without liking coffee or beer - we may make it through an MS this way too!
- Growing up in the Midwest without liking steak
- Living for
almostmore than 20 years in the Northwest without liking salmon - Negotiating two crazy cab-rides entirely in Spanish and one in French.
- Covering an entire map of the Saguenay Fjord with the blood of black flies
- Learning to say "Nice to meet you" in Quechua
- Taking on the task of learning some Chinese - I will never say I'm "learning Chinese", I have very realistic expectations of my skills there
- Most importantly, learning to let myself be "silently drawn by the stronger pull what [I] really love."
