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For those of you new to my blog I’m doing a mini series going through all the about me pages on my website.  It’s been fun introducing myself in more detail!

Up next:

History

Most people I know can’t stand history. They say it’s boring. Well if you had been taught by my teacher you wouldn’t have said that! I was homeschooled so my teacher (mom) was always trying to make school and learning interesting, fun, exciting. We’d pick a topic and study all the angles. I remember in about 6th grade we studied ancient Egypt.  We built sugar cube pyramids while mom read to us about the pharaohs. We put on a play for my dad, including a mural painting, and my brothers in paper tube beards!

Later, in High School, we studied WWII and read books about personal stories not just dates and names. We listened to the Andrews Sisters and Glen Miller to get a feel for what was popular. We watched classic movie of the era like Casablanca, noticing the details of clothing and cars and style of hair. At the end of our unit study we had a grand meal, everyone dressed up. The guys wore old GI uniforms and the girls dolled up like Betty Grable or Judy Garland. Now doesn’t that sound like a fun way to learn history!

 Real people. Real events. Real styles, music, books, stories, lives.

I love history so much I’m getting my bachelors in History! And no- I am not going to be a teacher. I just like studying about it. Photography is -and hopefully will always be- my career.

My favorite Eras: Ancient history and 1700-1950.  

What was your favorite subject in school?

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The third “about me” slide on my website that I want to talk about is:

Actually the photos pretty much say it all.

I got Elssa 7 years ago, a small bundle of soft, silky energy.  I think she must have read the manual on being man’s best friend, because she is always near me.

One of her favorite things to do is to jump up on my office chair as I work, and slide behind my back. It looks awkward, but she’s a great heating pad on these -20 below days!

I’m afraid that I have way too many photos of Elssa. She’s such a model, and such fun to practice with!

Although, sometimes I think she gets tired of posing for the camera:

 Do you have a pet? What is your favorite thing about them?

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 Some of you may know that I have been working on my bachelor’s degree for 10 years. Yes, 10. Because I’ve been starting a business I didn’t have as much time to spend studying, so I’ve only taken about 8 credits a semester. When  you need 120 to graduate it takes a LONG time. I only have one class left: a 6 credit Math course. Actually it isn’t even a course, I’m trying to test out of as many classes as possible (taking a CLEP test is about $80, vs thousands for a class!). Anyway it’s been a struggle for several reasons. I haven’t touched ‘real’ math since high school so everything I once knew has to be relearned. And it’s all over the board, sets, functions, algebra, geometry, logic, and lots of stuff I never heard of! Math has never been easy for me either.

  So today as I studied and was frustrated I had to remind myself that I’m not stupid. I can do this. It’s HARD work. But I can do it. 

Just to keep myself motivated I made this for my screen saver:

And I will.