A retired high-school biology/chemistry teacher, living in Central Kentucky with a variety of Humane Society babes rolling at her feet, classical music booming, friends calling and life evolving. Freely admitting favorite TV and movies especially a Life-Long Love of Star Trek include "Ishtar", "Revenge of the Nerds" and anything Monty Python does not prohibit a love of fellow-Kentuckians George Clooney and Johnny Depp, which is enormous and overwhelming. The enjoyment of fan-fiction involving these marvelous actors' most famous characters is not precluded by advanced years.

I was in London for the Investiture of Charles as Prince of Wales in 1969, for Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee in 1977, for Charles and Diana's wedding in 1981, for William's birth in 1982, and for Andrew and Sarah's wedding in 1986. I played basketball in the midnight sun north of the Arctic Circle the night Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969. I had lobster and baked alaska in Bali, Indonesia on the 4th of July in 1978, since they thought that's what Americans liked to eat on holidays. I've been blessed by Pope John XXIII, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and I'm not Catholic. I sat in the choir stalls at Canterbury Cathedral on St. Stephen's Day, I've knelt on the grave of Anne Boleyn for communion in the Tower of London, and I planted trees in the Judean desert for six weeks in 1973. I've swum in the Dead Sea, the South China Sea, the North Sea and the Bay of Biscay.

And I live in the same house where I was born and where the grandparents and parents lived.