100 List
100 Things About Myself.
1. I was born in downstate Illinois.
2. I lived in the same house for the first 18 years of my life. My family still owns it.
3. I was born 7 weeks premature,
4. My parents were called to pick me up from school when I was in second grade. I had thrown a temper tantrum because it was time for math and I wanted to study English (or visa versa)
5. I grew up on a farm.
6. I was a member of 4-H for 10 years.
7. I once had a calf as a pet.
8. I have lived in the US in Quincy, Il; Okla City, Ok; Chicago, Il; Richmond, Va; and Philadelphia, Pa. Outside the US I have lived in Lagos, Nigeria; Bombay, India; and Brussels, Belgium.
9. I spent 7 years as a fundraiser for a not-for-profit.
10. I spent 10 years is Brussels, the last 5 as the manager of an IT company.
11. I am a Democrat.
12. I went out of my way to vote for Carol Mosley Braun, the first black woman US senator, in 1992.
13. I love chocolate.
14. I have a cat.
15. I lived in a village in Nigeria for two years,
16. I am a brown eyed blonde,
17. My hair is slowly turning gray, but the gray blends in nicely.
18. I love to cook.
19. My cooking specialty is breads.
20. I just bought my third bread machine in ten years. I seem to wear them out.
21. I use King Arthur flour.
22. I like most foods. My mother always said that was because she made me try everything when I was a child.
23. I live with my sister. Before my stroke both of us insisted that we would never live together, it would be a disaster. It hasn
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