Daughters: 2, ages 22 and 16

Husbands: 1

Years of marriage: 25 (26 in April 2024)

Cats: 2, Iver and Field

How many cats I would have if it were legal: all of them

Dogs: 1, Clover

Favorite vacation spots: Kauai, the French Quarter, and Disneyland

Aspirational vacation spots: Japan, western Caribbean

Places I would vacation if tourists hadn’t already broken them: Venice, Barcelona

Favorite place to get coffee: Sabine in Ballard, Seattle, WA

Favorite coffee order: 8oz Americano with room for cream

Favorite place to get a beer: Brouwer’s in Fremont, Seattle, WA

Favorite place to get a cocktail: Baker’s in Sunset Hill, Seattle, WA

Favorite cocktail: a classic daiquiri

Frequency with which we hold cocktail parties in our basement bar: quarterly

Hobbies: reading, writing, crochet, kumihimo, photography, and baking/cooking, collecting cookbooks, watching others play video games

Favorite video games: Diablo 2 (we used to play co-op with our oldest daughter years ago…the family that slays together stays together!), Skyrim

Favorite books: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno Garcia, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Favorite cookbook: One Pot of the Day by Kate McMillan

Favorite bookstore: The Book Larder in Fremont, Seattle, WA

Longest single manuscript I’ve written: 600,000 words (clearly it needs some editing)

DuoLingo language: Japanese (our younger daughter is taking Japanese in high school and wants us to learn along with her)