not june cleaver asked for it. 

1. I love chocolate, but I refuse to eat Tootsie Rolls, chocolate ice cream, or milkshakes made from chocolate ice cream. They taste fake to me. And the milkshake? Completely cheating; a proper chocolate milk shake is made with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup!
2. I lived in the same state – California – until I was 38.
3. I will not use shampoo with sodium lauryl sulfate. Sure, the studies don’t confirm that it can cause any health problems, but come on. It’s used as an industrial floor degreaser. Do I really want that on my head?
4. Few people know what ALS is. You might recognize it by the name of Lou Gehrig’s disease. I have the unfortunate claim to know *three* people who suffered with this rare and debilitating disease, two of whom have lost their lives to it.
5. I grew up on an apple farm. I can pick up six apples at a time, drive a forklift and identify worm holes, bitter pit, and water core.
6. I have never read Gone with the Wind. And I’ve only watched bits of the movie. (I know, I know!)
7. The official publication date for all three of my books is 2006. The odds of that happening again are slim.
8. I have been featured in a text book. When I was about 12, a photographer from Harcourt Brace wanted to feature a rural farm family in one of their social studies books. My sister and I became “Josie” and “Karen” and we posed in pumpkin patches, at farm stands, picking up our toys (Josie and Karen were good girls!), and ice skating.
9. The ice skating photo shoot was the final one. I broke my leg that day and spent 3 months in a hip length cast.
10. Both of my babies were born via C-section. One included an ER style mad dash through the hospital hallways to surgery, scalpels before anesthesia, and general scariness. Both had happy endings.
11. BONUS: Huey Lewis once used my bathroom.