About Me

FAMILY

• In 1998, I moved to Nebraska for work and love.
• My husband and I like to watch movies, play games, go for daily walks, and learn new recipes.
• Every year we serve as preliminary judges for the Student Academy Awards.
• We sometimes trade off on cooking meals. He prepares them when I have a work deadline. I prepare them during football season and basketball playoffs.

PETS

• We have a household of pets: toy poodle, Calico cat, and a teddy breed guinea pig.
• My husband takes our dog to agility lessons and competitions. He recently created a bulletin board of Barnaby’s ribbons.
• Our cat busies herself with exploring, sleeping, and learning agility in our living room or in our fenced-in backyard. She’s a stray who I adopted as an indoor cat.
• I did try to teach our guinea pig agility too, but she didn’t really understand it. She contents herself to eating, listening to me read stories aloud, and hearing stories that I write about our pets.

IN-LAWS

• We live six blocks from my husband’s family and visit them weekly for supper and games.
• My family is a different matter. They live in Newfoundland, Canada! We communicate by email, webcam, telephone, and even snail mail.
• My husband and I also visit annually in the summer. It is a four-day drive that culiminates with a ferry ride.
• My step-mom is from the Philippines.
• My brother and sister are in high school.

JOBS

• I am a part-time resource teacher.
• My husband works at our local university.
• My dad and my mother-in-law are retired teachers.

WRITING

• I like to write for children and in the fantasy genre.
• I have written plays for Hearts United for Animals: a no-kill shelter
• I used to write an online friendship column at Suite101.
• One day my husband suggested, “You should start a blog of children’s book reviews. You’re always reading children’s books anyway. You might as well review them.” Now I have this blog!

OTHER

• To relax, I like to listen to music or play The Sims.
• I like nature. I compost, have bird feeders, and one day hope to have a container garden. I draw pictures of our animal visitors.
• The rest of my life is split between reading, attending church, and staying in contact with friends.
• I like fish-and-chips and carrot cake.