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Introduction	I'm an empty-nesting mom, university teacher, animal lover, gardener, hiker, traveler, monk, and reader. I love most being with my kids, good friends, good conversation, good coffee, waking up early in the morning while camping, traveling--both to new and well-loved places, snorkeling, djembe drumming, and laughing!
Favorite movies	The Big Blue, The Sound of Music, Harry Potter Series, Bread and Tulips, Avatar, Second Hand Lions, Under the Tuscan Sun, Mary Poppins, Princess Bride; TV: Battlestar Galactica (new series), Lost, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Damages, Longmire, Granchester,
Favorite books	Secret Life of Bees, Cutting for Stone, The Help, The City: A Novel, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, All the Light We Cannot See, The Four Agreements, The Wisdom Way of Knowing; Poetry: Rumi, TS Eliot, Yeats, Hopkins, Mary Oliver