I’m sure my first readers will already know a lot about me, but in case you’ve never heard of me or don’t know me very well, let me introduce myself. I’m the oldest in a family of five girls, a Kansas native. I happily taught ninth-grade English for six years before deciding to stay home with my baby daughter — and, eventually, my son, too. I’m married to a terribly curious computer scientist, who helped revive my bibliophilia, and my self. About two years ago, after the birth of my son, I decided to become a birth doula and am loving it.  I drink a lot of tea, bake a lot of sweet stuff, make a lot of lists, and have a lot of motivation to do a lot of other things. And I’m serious about following Jesus and want my faith to permeate all these seemingly trivial parts of me.