About Me

  • About Me: I'm a writer, wife, friend, Christian, thinker, and perpetual acquaintance. Want to get on my good side? Get me a cupcake, STAT.

Travel

  • Places I love: Virginia, Monterey CA, Mainz Germany
  • Places I've been: Germany, CA, AZ, NV, TX, VA, AR, ME, RI, FL, GA, AL, NC, SC, NY, Washington DC, TN, MD, CT, DE, MA.... I think that's it.
  • Places to see before I die: Venice, Italy; Israel; Russia; Derry, Ireland
  • Dream Vacation: A 2-week tour of renaissance Italy.

Books

  • Favorite Books: So many. Anything that doesn't suck.
  • Favorite Authors: C.S. Lewis, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Larry Elder, Phyllis Schlafley, Randy Alcorn, Orson Scott Card, Ayn Rand, Douglas Adams, Melanie Rawn, Thomas Harris, Mario Bitalli, St. Paul, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, John R. Lott, John Stossel, Michael Behe, Neal Boortz, Carrie L. Lukas, Goethe, Nietzsche... and so very very many others.
  • Favorite Genres: Fantasy, sci-fi, non-fic, history, mythology, political science, cook books, biography... anything.
  • Favorite Characters: Cailet Rille and Collan Rosvenir
  • Favorite Quotes: "I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for another man, nor have another man live for me." - Ayn Rand "You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Wrench
  • Nationality: German
  • Religion: Christian + Other
  • Heroes: Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Joseph McCarthy
  • Occupation: Writer

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Caedmon's Call, Waterdeep, Cruxshadows, Elton John, Billy Joel, the Decemberists, Chris Rice, Bebo Norman, the Average White Band, the Legendary Pink Dots, Wise Child, Pat Benatar, Pop Will Eat Itself, Stephen Kellog, Matt Nathanson, Jack Johnson... a lot of others.
  • Favorite Genre: Folk rock, structured/melodic rock, jazz, funk, gospel
  • Favorite Songs: Crazy by Pasty Cline, Foolish Love by Waterdeep
  • Favorite Lyrics: "You can take your chances, beat your fists on the boards of despair/ You end up with splinters in your knuckles thinking, 'Unjust, unfair'/ Or you can crawl to the alter of sadness and starve at the base / And devour your history in the shadow of misery and blow away in the breeze / Without a trace"
  • Songs for Roadtrips: Anything by my favourite musicians listed above.
  • Songs I hate: Anything on the Top Ten Pop list this week.
  • Guilty Pleasure: ... Hanson.
  • Songs I repeat the most: Probably anything by Caedmon's Call.
  • Band I wish I was in: Cruxshadows