In the blogging tradition of 100 things after 100 blogs, here’s my list of 100 things about me:

1. I’m an older mom

2. I love it

3. I’m a foster mom

4. I love it

5. I’m still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.

6. Except being a mom. That I know I love

7. I took three years of private acting lessons

8. My restaurant, The Tao Café, served mostly vegetarian and healthy items

9. I was president of a bio - medical manufacturing company for seven years

10. My first business was at age 10 selling home made wire necklaces

11. I’m a Van Morrison fanatic

12. For the first time in my life, I don't own a business

13. I need lots of quiet down time

14. I love to speak in public

15. I’ve been to a nude beach. Several times

16. Dessert is wasted unless chocolate is involved

17. Chocolate Malted Milk Balls are yummy

18. In my twenties I was a roofer

19. And a waitress

20. And a computer business owner

21. At nineteen I left home to travel across the USA.

22. I lived in England at the time

23. I flunked school

24. I’ve been in a TV commercial

25. I’ve been in a very bad feature movie

26. I have a degree in Holistic Theology

27. Bikram yoga is my favorite

28. but I practice Ashtanga

29. My movie, Woman As Butterfly, was screened at several national film festivals

30. The artist in the movie does Butoh dancing - I’ve never tried it – and won’t


31. I think I know the words to every Beatles song

32. But I liked Traffic and Led Zeppelin better

33. I’ve traveled through a lot of Central America

34. But I’ve never been to South America – Yet

35. Hubby and I took off seven weeks in the 90’s and drove the Alaskan Highway

36. It rained a lot, but we saw lots of bears. GRIZZLYS!

37. We canoed out to the middle of a lake to avoid a bear

38. There isn’t anywhere to paddle around here

39. My favorite hike is in the San Juan Mountains

40. I'm saving for a trip to Bali and New Zealand

41. I’m the oldest of three girls

42. My parents owned a restaurant/bar/hotel when I was growing up

43. I’d hide underneath the bar while my dad bartended

44. He’d sneak me Coca Colas

45. My first car was an Opal

46. Now I drive a beige mini van

47. In between I had cool red sports cars. Sigh

48. I’m a techno nerd and used to know Unix

49. I took my first plane ride at age ten - over the ocean with my dad to visit my grandmother

50. Did I mention I love being a mom?


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