About Me

  • About Me: I am a follower of Christ who seeks to add to the beauty, who adores a good book, creating something previously unmade with needles and yarn, listening to stirring music, watching quality films, trying new recipes, capturing signs of life through photography, and experiencing new places by traveling.

More About Me

  • Religion: Christian (Church of the Nazarene)
  • Heroes: my grandma
  • Interests: singing, reading, knitting, traveling, photography, quality films, whistling, baking, fun socks, writing letters, finding pennies on the ground, NPR, the St. Louis Cardinals, "Adventures in Odyssey," happy endings
  • Expertise: learning to be myself - the person God has created me to be. I'm also learning more about Stravinsky and "The Rite of Spring."
  • Occupation: part-time school library aide and full time graduate student

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Annie, The Sound of Music, That Thing You Do, Serendipity, Garden State, Elizabethtown, The Constant Gardener, Finding Neverland, Once, 13 Going on 30, You've Got Mail

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Sara Groves, Chris Rice, Alabama, Alison Krauss, David Phelps, Coldplay, Seal, Gustav Holst, Igor Stravinsky
  • Favorite Albums: Add to the Beauty, Run the Earth - Watch the Sky, Lonely Runs Both Ways, A Rush of Blood to the Head, the soundtracks of Pride and Prejudice and Wicked

Books

  • Favorite Books: Rebecca, Fahrenheit 451, Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, The Shadow of the Wind, Eat - Pray - Love, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Tenth Circle, The Road, On Chesil Beach, The Thief Lord, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
  • Favorite Authors: Jan Karon, Jhumpa Lahiri, Mitch Albom, Cornlia Funke

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Alias, Gilmore Girls, Jeopardy, Knitty Gritty, Monk, The Office, Project Runway, 30 Minute Meals, The Biggest Loser, Cash Cab
  • Favorite Channels: Food Network, Discovery, TLC
  • Favorite Reruns: The Cosby Show, Saved by the Bell, Family Matters, Full House

Travel

  • Places I love: the beauty of rolling hills in Tuscany and, closer to home, the Ozarks
  • Places I've been: London, Rome, Toronto, Quito
  • Places to see before I die: Austria, the Great Wall, Stonehenge, Mount Rushmore, the Gustav Holst home/museum
  • Dream Vacation: more than a vacation - studying/living abroad for any length of time