I am vivacious, and full of life. I feel like I'm thirty-five--and often I act like I'm 35. My energy level says that I ought to be 35. So, I'm blessed by all that. I have so many interests that it would be hard to list them all. Among them are reading, exploring, bicycling, and engaging in good conversation. I like my coffee upon arising in the morning, but I enjoy a proper pot of tea, in the afternoon. I also enjoy nice full strength Scotch, on social occasions.
Although Fairbanks, Alaska is what I call "God's Country," and therefore home, I did some travelling last year, and I spent several months in Shreveport, Louisiana. I got to know Shreveport very well, along with Northwest Louisiana, as well as nearby East Texas, Southeastern Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi.
I'm glad I'm back in Fairbanks, now. One thing about the South: I missed snow. Snow is a way of life! Cross country skiing and snowshoeing are nonexistant in the South. I enjoy history, yet a big gap in my knowledge has been the American Civil War, especially the Western Campaigns. While I was in Louisian, I enjoyed studying the Battle of Mansfield (and visiting the battlefield), and the Red River Campaign.
You can take the girl out of Alaska, but you can't take the Alaska out of the girl. (Only those of you from Alaska will understand this, but it seems so odd that when you go to a ball game in the Lower-48, that before the game, they don't all stand up and sing, "Eight stars of gold, on a field of blue; Alaska's flag, may it mean to you." :)
