-I love Art, music, nature, anthropology, history, sports

-My hobbies include gardening, cooking, creating, hiking, and volleyball

-I am married and raising three boys in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  We have a standard poodle and two cats.

-I was an art therapist.  I have a masters degree in art education/art therapy and an undergraduate degree in psychology and fine art.

-I am related to the Studebaker family and have relatives who moved to California for the gold rush.

-My father worked for the National Park Service for 40 years and I grew up at Mt. Rainier, Washington and Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.  

I was born in Vernal, Utah when my dad worked at Flaming Gorge National Recreational Area.