: About Me

I'm a self employed mother of two, living and playing in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

Favorites include music (Pearl Jam and Dave Matthews are at the top of the list), strong coffee, stimulating conversation, the beach, Pacific Northwest, animals, and volunteering my efforts to make the world a better place.

I have one mildly defiant dog and plenty of wildlife in my front yard - things are never boring around here!

My passion is ...

helping others.

I know too much about ...

changing careers!

My parents always told me ...

if something is worth doing, do it right.

My childhood ambition ...

author.

Why I write ...

creative expression.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

always Pearl Jam!

My first job ...

parking attendant.

My best moment ...

I live in the now so they are all equally "the best moment!"

My inspiration ...

my family.

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I was never cool or hip enough to call Seattle home. I have never hung out in Capitol Hill and had run-ins with famed grunge celebrities, or sipped lattes while sitting in Discovery Park. I've never stolen anything from the Space Needle except admiring glances of the Puget Sound. Ed Ved doesn't know who I am, and Mike McCready doesn't take my calls. But I am a self-professed Pearl Jam-ite and have followed the band from one venue to another, even paid to be an official member of the famed Ten Club, which did earn me a special release 45 that I have no way of playing, as my beloved record p...

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