About Me

I grew up as a very regular and probably homely looking child, at least that is how I describe myself looking at my childhood pictures.  However, my peer's childhood pictures look very similar, so I blame our generational trends. I live in a small town with my husband and two children.  We live very typical, small town lives. We participate in the local high school and college sporting events.  We often run on roads that don't have sidewalks, or stop lights, or painted lines.  I am a non-brick-and-mortar, high school business teacher who works from home. 

I have always enjoyed writing.  I think it is therapeutic and brings me happiness.  Now, I don't think I have anything great or important to say, especially not more important than the next ordinary woman, but I do like to write my thoughts. 

My entire life I have been identified by one physical trait.  I am 6 feet tall.  When I was 11 years old and going into 6th grade, I had a major growth spurt and have been about the same height ever since. In a small-town middle school, this amount of growth made me taller than most of the boys as well as my entire grade. In fact, there was a point of high school where I was the tallest girl in the whole school of 500. Everywhere I went people commented about my height.  For a teenager, being pointed out can be one of the worst things imaginable.  Over the years, I have learned to embrace my height.  I am still pointed out when I walk in a crowd. I chuckle to myself when I walk into a room, and I see someone look down to my feet and then all the way up to my head. I honestly do not feel THAT tall, but have recently learned, I am in the top 1% of women in the world! So, there you have it, I excel at one thing -- my height genetics. Ahem, something I had no control over. :) 

That is me in three paragraphs. A 6-foot-tall woman, living in small town America with my husband and two children, an active/inactive high school business teacher, runner, a true master of mediocre living.