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Below is some more information about me.
But…I’d love to get to know more about you!
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Caption: extremely flattering photo my daughter took of me at Cruze Farm, Knoxville, and insisted I use on my website

1. I could talk about myself forever. I’m a Leo.

2. I am happily married, with four terrific children, two dogs…and a bunny rabbit. (Because I was hoodwinked by my 7-year-old.)

3. I recently lost my 9-year-old daughter to Leukemia. #ihatecancer. She was incredible. If you had met her first, you wouldn't even be here. You'd be off skydiving — or something — with her. She was inspiring and fearless like that.


4. My favorite pastimes are knitting, reading, studying history, watching ‘The Office’ on repeat, and hiking the Great Smoky Mountains with my family. (i.e. avoiding bears.) 


5. I can’t bake. I once baked an entire pumpkin pie and served it, only to find the label still lining the store-bought pie shell under the filling. Then there was that time I tried to fry donuts with my son: I poured out the hot oil into our plastic mixing bowl, and the bowl melted into a useless puddle.

6. I’m British on my paternal grandmother’s side, and can trace my lineage back to William the Conqueror and Charlemagne. I’m exceptionally snobby about this. 


7. In the 6th grade, I represented my middle school in the state spelling bee. I came in 5th, out of 15 schools. I'm also exceptionally snobby about this. 


8. I lost to the word "taffeta” which, in my opinion, is a ridiculously obscure word to ask a 6th-grader to spell. And then, the word presented to the contestant after me was "honest." Come on! Super easy. ...I'm still miffed.

9. I love to research and learn! Social sciences & psychology…medical topics (I almost became a nurse)…history…philosophy…biology…art. Heck, I won’t even buy a new kitchen gadget without researching product reviews from multiple sources. 


10. I secretly aspire to become a contestant on “Nailed It.” (Because of number 5, but also because if I met Nicole Byer, I just know she would realize we are ‘bosom buddies,’ a la ‘Anne of Green Gables,’ and would thereafter Face Time me every Friday night for margaritas and chill.)

*Bonus Fact (not that you asked for one): I have a handy parlor trick in that I can recite the 50 U.S. States in alphabetical order in under 30 seconds. This has come in useful on more than one game night/trivia occasion …My husband finds it extremely annoying.