I am a mother to four amazing littles and a wife to my best friend.
I am an animal rescuer with a particular love for pit bulls. You probably don’t want to get me started on pit bulls. I find animals wherever I go. Or even if I stay. And I write stories about them.
I have an elaborate organic garden I plant every spring and neglect all summer when the mosquitoes arrive. I love farmers’ markets and moved to our neighborhood primarily because we can walk to the best one in town. I live by a park, where there are owls, and can walk to a river, where there are bald eagles and osprey.
We’re a homeschooling family, though we hadn’t intended to be, and we love it. We are also a home-birthing, babywearing, attachment-parenting kind of family, and we love that, too.
I’ve been a vegetarian because of my love for animals since I was 12, though it took me much longer to realize I should be a vegan. My family goes to Farm Sanctuary every year, and it’s the most peaceful place I’ve ever been. My daughter knows just the spot to scratch a turkey under her wings to make her gobble and lie down. We’re very proud. No, seriously, we are.
As much as I talk about putting down roots, having an orchard, building an eco-house, I am restless. I love to travel and wish there were more (vacation) days or dollars to take my family to all the wonderful places I want us all to see.
I own a socially-conscious translation agency, Full Circle Translations, with a dear friend. We love what we do. And we have fun together making lists of all the horrible companies for which we’d refuse to translate. I didn’t say “for whom” because I don’t agree with corporate personhood.
And I’d like to call myself a writer. One day.
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