About Me

  • About Me: A young Christian woman in the modern world working to make plants grow.

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Linkin Park, Trapt, System of a Down, Three Days Grace, Nineteen Wheels...
  • Favorite Genre: New Rock, Classical, Celtic, Bluegrass, Choral Baroque, Christian Contemporary
  • Favorite Lyrics: "I want to run away, never say goodbye; I want to run away..."

Books

  • Favorite Books: Wuthering Heights, Finding Darwin's God, Earth Odyssey, LOTR trilogy, Uncommon Grounds, Slaughterhouse Blues, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Frankenstein...
  • Favorite Authors: C.S. Lewis, James Clarence Mangan, George Gordon, Wordsworth, Donne, Thomas Hardy, Amy Tan, Eldredge, Bevere, Milton...
  • Favorite Genres: Christian history and nonfiction, Classic literature, Poetry, Science, History, Religion, Culture, Humanitarian and Environmental Issues
  • Favorite Quotes: "Where have you come from? and where are you going?" --El Roi (the God who sees me), Genesis 16:8
  • Recent Reads: The Pilgrim's Progress, A History of Christianity, The New Yorkers, The Pilgrim's Regress

Style

  • I like to wear: Tank tops...all year!
  • Can't live without: My family, pets, plants, and books....and coffee.
  • Prized Possessions: My books (since plants and pets can't really be "possessed").
  • Guilty Pleasure: Candy...I eat too much candy!

Travel

  • Places I love: Marquette, MI (really, the whole UP west of Seney).
  • Places I've been: Mexico, Canada, quite a few US states on the east side of the country.
  • Places to see before I die: Ireland; Scotland; Oaxaca, Mexico; Colombia
  • Dream Vacation: Oaxaca, Mexico to the coffee plantations, then to Colombia to visit my sponsor-child, Laura

College

  • School Name: Northern Michigan University
  • Status: Undergrad
  • Class of: 2004
  • Attended: 2000 - 2004
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): Environmental Conservation
  • Minor(s): English, Biology