Share & Tell

I’ve avoided the ”all about me” section for months, but okay okay, I’ll dish.   I am a 50-something married woman with two mostly grown kids.  I’m a research attorney at the North Carolina court of appeals and I’m very good at it! I have four kitties and two dogs, and confess to being a Cat Nut.  I’m obsessed with knitting, and may finally make a Lifetime Commitment to this art form, following decades of being a “Craft Slut” playing around with sewing, beading, quilting, and photography. I read whenever I’m not knitting or wasting time online.
Family: My husband is also a state employed attorney. Our daughter is 25 and living in Bellingham, WA, working and going to school. She’s beautiful (nope! doesn’t look like mom!), and extremely talented in art and music (did I mention she takes after her dad?) Our son is 22 and a senior here at UNC-Chapel Hill. Okay, time to brag, he’s majoring in both Chinese and Arabic. He looks more like me and I’ll take credit for the language gene. I love my family and hate that some of them have passed on. My brother Gary died of cancer a couple of years ago, and I miss him terribly. My mom died in 2002 and I’ll always miss her too. After my mother and brother died, my dad moved to North Carolina and rented a house down the street from me. He’s 84 and just wasn’t able to keep up the homeplace on his own. My sister also lives nearby, north of Raleigh. She’s married with two children.
Onward with the sharing.  I hate being in a new group where you go around the circle and tell about yourself.  I don’t even listen because I’m too busy dreading my turn.  What else?  I am politically leftward, but I hate party-line thinking (or lack thereof) by either side.