![]() ![]() If I could have any superpower it would be to communicate with animals. One of my greatest joys in life is taking my own grandchildren to historical places. 30 Random Facts About Me, The Refined Hippie: 1. I vividly recall standing before a Ford Model T at a museum I’d visited with my grandparents. I fell in love with history at age five.The first car I bought with my own money was a used 1969 Camaro, in blue.(My dad wasn’t a fan.) When I got married, my husband’s dog-a Doberman pinscher named Rajah-became my first pet. My family never had pets when I was growing up.On our 30 th wedding anniversary, my husband and I stood at the top of the Eiffel Tower.For years before my mom passed away, she lived in Indiana and we texted back and forth through every Bachelor episode.In my fifties, I competed in a mini triathlon-a quarter-mile swim in a lake, a 10-mile bike ride, and a 5K run. I was forty-eight years old before I ever ran a mile.I had to wear corrective shoes for flat feet all through elementary school.Twice baked potatoes, au gratin potatoes, hashed brown potatoes, and mashed. If I had to pick a favorite food, it would surely be potatoes.My favorite quote is from Oprah: “You can have it all.Like many authors, I have two complete novels “sitting in a drawer” that never got published.Cards even had “planned spontaneity time.” (Okay, I confess to being a planner, but I’ve loosened up a lot since then. ![]() I packed a daily itinerary written on color-coded index cards: pink for the Magic Kingdom attractions, blue for Epcot, and green for Pleasure Island as it was known then. Thinking up a good fun fact can be tricky. My children still tease me about the time we went to Disney World. The fun facts about me section of an introduction can be challenging to complete.The American Institute of Architects ranked Columbus 6 th in our country for architectural innovation and design-behind Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Pei, the architect who later designed the glass pyramid at the Louvre. The public library I went to as a kid in my hometown of Columbus, Indiana (population 40,000+) was designed by I.M.It was cool that my boys were there to see it. I received the Top Graduate award in my major. It wasn’t until my late twenties that I started college.He’d been out of school a good bit longer. My husband and I married six weeks after I graduated from high school.College football: now that’s my sport.I don’t consider myself adventurous, but I’ve somehow managed to skydive from an airplane (with a tandem expert strapped to my back, of course) gone white water rafting without being thrown from the raft in a Class IV rapid and ridden at 125 miles per hour in a race car on a motor sport track (no, I wasn’t the one behind the wheel).Every few years, my birthday lands on Thanksgiving Day.Elvis was in his “white outfit-big bell bottoms-wide belt buckle phase” by then, but he was still King of Rock n’ Roll. My parents took me when I was in sixth grade. I once saw Elvis Presley live in concert. ![]()
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