Katharine (aka EditorMom) tagged me for the ‘8 random facts about me’ meme, which I promised I’d post over the weekend…times slippin’ by. So here they are:

1. In another life I was a Civil War re-enactor. I made my own costumes out of historically correct fabrics from historically correct patterns and a couple of the more elaborate ones still hang in the back of my closet.
2. To this day, I read the Little Women books and the Anne of Green Gables series once a year because they are my most-beloved childhood books. My daughter couldn’t get through the first chapter of Little Women. Go figure. I added To Kill a Mockingbird to the list about ten years ago. No summer goes by without reading those books.
3. I once aspired to a career in classical music as an oboist.
4. I cannot stand to even think about touching a cotton ball, much less actually do it. The mere suggestion gives me the chills up and down my spine. UGH. My stepfather used to tease me by leaving one under my pillow when I was out late on a date. Just writing about it is making me shiver…ewwwww.
5. I was one of the original playtesters for the Dungeons & Dragons game back in the seventies, when Gary Gygax and TSR were doing marketing research. For years I played every week with a group of friends and finally retired my level 38 paladin in 1987. His name was “Live” (evil spelled backwards — not original, but he could kick some major orc, undead and goblin butt. He retired with a silver dragon as his companion.)
6. I built my first, second and third computers from castoff parts gotten when I upgraded the family computer. I didn’t buy a new computer until 2002 - before that they were self-built.
7. Red wine gives me horrible tannin headaches but there is nothing quite as divine as a nice dry Chardonnay. Kendall-Jackson is particularly delicious.
8. I was named the ‘most inspirational’ player on my high school tennis team. This is because I was competitive and an abysmal tennis player all at once. A band/choir geek gone jock isn’t a pretty sight. They felt sorry for me, I think.

And that’s it for my 8 Random Facts. I’ll tell ya what — rather than tagging I’ll leave it to you to decide if you want to share your 8 — post a comment or your own blog post, and I’ll withhold the tags (since I think everyone I read has had this meme hit them at one point or another).

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