About Me

  • About Me: I am a nearly 52 year old Christian high school teacher who has been married for 26.5 years, has three furkids, and has survived ovarian cancer twice :-)

Television

  • Favorite Shows: So You Think You Can Dance, American Idol, Next Food Network Star, Dancing with the Stars, DesignStar, House, Friends, Most Dangerous Catch, Iron Chef, Take Home Chef, Trading Spaces.
  • Favorite Channels: TLC, Food Network, HGTV
  • Favorite Reruns: Friends, M*A*S*H, Mary Tyler Moore, WKRP in Cincinnati
  • Most Addictive Show: American Idol
  • Characters you relate to: Monica Geller Bing, Rhoda
  • Favorite Theme Song: Friends

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: The Wizard of Oz, The Big Chill, Pretty Woman, An Officer and A Gentleman, The Stand, Shawshank Redemption, A League of Their Own, Renaissance Man, Awakenings, A Knight's Tale, Merlin, Rudy, Pay It Forward, Deep Impact, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean, Edward Scissorhands, Benny and Joon, and Every Musical Ever Recorded...to name a very few.
  • Favorite Actors: Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Bill Pullman, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts.
  • Favorite Directors: Lawrence Kasdan, Penny Marshall, Mimi Leder, Tim Burton
  • Favorite Genre: Musical
  • Favorite Soundtracks: ...RENT, Chicago, The Big Chill, Pretty Woman, An Officer and a Gentleman, Robin Hood, Star Wars...again, to name a very few.
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: There's no crying in baseball! Get busy living, or get busy dying. I'm not dead yet. I'm getting better. I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. ...aw, who'm I kidding. Half of what I say is from movies.
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Most of 'em.
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Kathy Bates

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Chinese and Mexican
  • Favorite Dishes: Chicken Egg Foo Young, Egg Drop Soup, Wet Burritos
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Taco Bell. Popcorn covered in Parmesan Cheese.
  • Best meal ever: Lobster and scallops with corn on the cob and creme brulee.
  • My Original Recipes: I cook everything from scratch, pretty much.
  • Favorite Restaurants: Mexican Village, BD's Mongolian BBQ
  • Foods I hate: Liver. Lima Beans. I think that's it. This also explains my weight problem...

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Bible, Little Women, The Stand
  • Favorite Authors: King, Kingsbury, Alcott, Dickens, Chaucer, Shakespeare
  • Favorite Genres: Classic, Christian Fiction
  • Favorite Characters: Jo in Little Women
  • Favorite Quotes: Marmee in Little Women: "Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace." "Either get busy living or get busy dying" - Andy, "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" "Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home." - Glen Bateman, "The Stand"
  • Recent Reads: Night - Elie Wiesel; Sunrise Series - Karen Kingsbury

High School

  • School Name: George A Dondero High School
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1974
  • Attended: 1970 - 1974
  • Organizations: Orchestra, Acapella Choir, Musical Minority, Pep Club, NHS, Drama, WOAK-Radio, Forensics.

College

  • School Name: Western Michigan University
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1977
  • Attended: 1974 - 1977
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): Theatre Education
  • Minor(s): English Literature
  • Organizations: Theatre, WIDR-AM and FM, Intermural sports, Campus Lutheran Church.