Some things you may not know about the “Zen Druidry Lady” 🙂

• I spent my spare time in my youth figure skating at the ice rink at the end of my street all winter long

• When I wasn’t figure skating, I was cross-country skiing or downhill skiing

• I know all the lyrics to pretty much every Taylor Swift song

• I know the entire script of Jim Henson’s movie, Labyrinth, by heart

• I played the head of a pirate nation in a Live Action Role-Playing system

• I was also an elf in another LARP system

• I began writing my first book when I was fourteen

• I only have an automatic, not manual driver’s license (but I can drive/operate a tractor with bucket)

• I used to ride a Yamaha Xmax before I got my driver’s license

• I was a volunteer and member of the Valley Farm Mounted Troop, part of the Suffolk Division of the Legion of the Horse for the Volunteer Corps of Frontiersmen

• I also competed in Western horse-riding competitions

• I rode down the aisle, side-saddle, next to my husband (who was on his own horse) at our wedding

• I sing silly, improvised songs to my cats. A lot.

• My cats LOVE my songs.

• I play golf (at eco-friendly sites)

• I never measure the quantities of anything when I bake – I always wing it

• I am a very good swimmer

• I do a very good screaming chimpanzee impersonation

• I work for one of the largest classical music festivals in the world

• I can play the guitar, strumstick, drums, flute, recorder, harmonica, and piano (none of them particularly well)