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About Me

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I hate these bio things. I just never know what to say. Ok, here goes...I am happily married, and have been for 19 years now. My husband and I both teach college. I teach Writing and Religious Studies, he teaches Communications. We have two amazing, fantastic, brilliant, and beautiful daughters who are both college bound: one will be attending next year, and the other the year after that. I have few regrets in my life.
A few years ago my mother passed away, and my husband and I scrapped plans to buy a Victorian "fixer upper" in a little town nearby called Redlands. Instead, we moved back into my parents old home to care for my elderly father. He's a great old fart! He's a musician, always has been, always will be. He still plays, although not like he used too. It's been pretty surreal being back in the old house, the old neighborhood, seeing all the old haunts...but this town has kept growing and my memories are overlaid with new images. For instance, my daughters go to a high school that wasn't here back in the day (those crazy early 80s!) but some of their teachers used to be my teachers! And funnier still, my daughters now hang out with the kids of my old friends.
My life is a small one, and a contented one.
Meanwhile, I'm working on my PhD. It's an exciting subject...to me, anyway! I plan to be finished in 2010. Cross your fingers I make it. I also attend lectures and seminars, even present my own papers at a few, and hope to travel more once my kids are on their own.
When I'm not grading papers, or writing lecture notes, or working on my research, I'm in my all organic veggie garden -- it fills my backyard and all of my spare time. Or I'm driving around in my hybrid Prius -- yeah, I'm "that" person! hahaha I'm just a hippy at heart, it seems.
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

in no particular order here...
Jamie Oliver - Just cuz he is SO adorable and I love watching him cook!
Jon Stewart - Who wouldn't want to meet him?!
John Waters - gotta love those wierd directors!
Micheal Moore - We wouldn't agree on everything, but imagine the conversation!
James Hillman - (again)
John Travolta - isn't he so strange?
George Clooney - but I'd want to touch him, and they don't let you do that.
Sofia Coppala - Marie Antoinette was amazing, loved Lost in Translation, and Virgin Suicides was amazing (I use it in one of my classes!)
Carl Marx - dead, yeah, but I'd still like to meet him.
Simone de Beauvoir - also dead, but very cool lady!
John Lennon - turning into a cooley "dead" party!
Silvia Plath - dead, but I'd like to kick her a little.
Adrienne Rich - dead? Hmmm, don't know. But we could talk poetry.
Kevin Smith - I would LOVE to hang with him for a day!
Jack Zipes - If you have kids, you'll want to pick up one of his books (critiques) on fairytales. Do you know what you're teaching your kids? I'd have so much to say!
Bill Clinton - just cuz. ;)
Mike Rowe - but only if he'd talk to me with the liquid voice.
Neil Gaiman - my newest passion!
Anthony Bourdain - but not if I have to eat with him!
George Lakoff - so's I could listen to the brilliance
Christopher Moore - so's I could laugh.
Gregory Maguire - so's I could smack him for turning a fabulous book into a stupid musical!
Nora Jones - She's so cool and jazzy.
Dave Matthews - Him, too!
Sting - but only if I get to do tantric with him...
Mr. Jimmy Carter and his lovely wife,
Rosalyn Carter
I have a huge Thank You to say to both of them.

barring those cool folks, I'd love to meet anyone who has a desire to make this earth a healthier, safer, and more self-sustaining place. Anyone who has a personal story about how they're changed their worldview to include new people, new ideas of old ways (recycle, renew, reuse), or an alternative to current systems that don't work.

The election is over, and I've been VERY involved with it. Now it's time for all of us to get busy and correct the mistakes of the past 8 years, and to make this world a better place than it was when we got here!

You up to that?!

My Blog

A Friend just emailed me....

It's been forever, it seems, since I've had time to blog. I miss my blog. I miss having the time to read the eco-news and get all worked up. Ah....time..... So a dear friend emailed me that h...
Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 09:06:00 GMT

Get a Clue, Already...

I've been watching the gas, oil, and public land situation up in Utah for several weeks, now. Ever since that cute Brigham Young University guy with the caring blue eyes crashed the land auction and "...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:12:00 GMT

The Battle of Evermore...ever more ridiculous Republican rantings, that is...

Life is strange...Anyone reading the news, watching the TV coverage of the Battle of Evermore going on? (Clearly, it's metaphor time...)Queen of light took her bowAnd then she turned to go,The prince ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:02:00 GMT

While you were relaxing this weekend...

New happenings in and around California on the environmental front last week. Some of these have spilled over into today. I went out cruising and found some of the more interesting items:President Oba...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:42:00 GMT

I have no words right now

Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:49:00 GMT

Kat Reads the News....

California stuff with the environment you may have missed over the holidays...1.) SMUGGLER'S GULCH. Have you been worried about illegal immigrants sneaking and lurking into the country while the citiz...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:58:00 GMT

The Shoes The Thing....

Shoes, M'Dear, Shoes...Sometimes, you just need to take the shoe off, for a good cause of course. You can also take off your hat, for a good cause, but it isn't the same. Are you watching the news? Vi...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:39:00 GMT

I should be blogging

- Get Your Own[isn't this creepy?! That's me...kind of...I couldn't resist!]I am counting the days until I have time to do more blogging. In the meantime, I had lost the password for this p...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:40:00 GMT

Happy Thanksgiving!

I thought about writing a little poem, or a little story, or even posting some of my pictures of the build up to the "big day"...alas, after cooking and prepping and cleaning for three days, all the w...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:38:00 GMT

Obama Wins

I am proud that I was involved in this election. I am proud that I saw this day occur, the day that a qualified, educated, intelligent, forward-thinking, and hopeful candidate became president of the ...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:05:00 GMT