Archive for January, 2010
27 Questions with Lori Reed
Jan 28th
1. Your One Sentence Bio
- Lori Reed, mom, library enthusiast, lifelong learner, passionate about helping people, team Edward!
2. Do you blog? If yes, how did you come up with your blog name?
- I moved my blog from LibraryTrainer.com to LoriReed.com yesterday. I chose my name because it will remain constant. I want the freedom to change directions with my blog as needed.
3. What is your professional background?
- I worked for several years as a firefighter/EMT and discovered that I love training. I conducted training for firefighters and EMTs for a while then moved to computer training (better hours and pay). I worked for a few for-profits and found that I really missed the environment of public service. A job came open at the library in Charlotte for someone to do computer support and training and it seemed like the perfect fit. 10-years and three jobs later and it’s still a great fit!
4. What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes?
- I coordinate the staff development at my library. This means that I don’t get to do as much training anymore. Instead I do more strategic planning. I look at the mission and vision and goals of the library and translate those back into competencies that staff need to achieve the library’s goals. I work with managers and staff to see what skills our staff need to accomplish the library’s goals and to get their jobs done well. I rely on a core group of staff trainers to facilitate most training sessions. I also serve as an internal consultant to help staff trainers develop their courses and materials.
5. What training do you think is most important to libraries right now?
- I think the most important thing is that we be strategic with our training. If you align your training with your library’s vision, mission, and goals then you are right on track.
6. Where do you get your training?
- Wherever I can! North Carolina State Library’s Master Trainer Program, Mecklenburg County, InSync Training, Learning Round Table, ASTD, ISPI, conferences, blogs, Twitter, friends…maybe the question should be where don’t I get my training.
7. How do you keep up?
- The first rule of … wait … wrong question. I follow other people who keep up with subjects I’m interested in. It saves me a lot of time! I live by GTD principles and use my Outlook calendar and tasklist religiously. It also helps to have a clear personal definition of keeping up. For me keeping up means keeping my inbox at or near 0 and having some idea of what is going on in the world. For other people keeping up may mean knowing about every new idea or gadget that is coming out.
8. What do you think are the biggest challenges libraries are facing right now?
- I think traditionally libraries have been slow to adapt and change. The world around us is changing at a faster and faster pace. To remain relevant and cherished by everyone in our communities we need to adapt faster. We need to take risks and be willing to try new things that might fail. We need to look at failure as a success and staying the same as a failure. We need to reduce the digital divide that exists among libraries. We need to continue to market our services. We’re being asked to do more with less–maybe it’s time to get more creative with funding and partnerships. We desperately need a new universal brand that reflects 21st century libraries!
9. What are biggest challenges for trainers?
- Training is not always the solution. Training does not solve problems that stem from poor management or software that’s not intuitive. These are bigger issues at an organizational level. Traditionally trainers have not been in a role to contribute to organizations at that higher level. That needs to change. Trainers need to be part of the strategic planning of libraries and need to have the flexibility to implement complete performance solutions. When training is called for, developing quality training takes time. It’s more than happy butts in seats. Like everyone else, trainers are being asked to do more with less or worse to deploy bandages that will not solve long term performance or organizational issues.
10. What exciting things are you doing training wise?
- We recently implemented a curriculum for staff training. We also received a generous donation of Lumenix (a learning content management system) from Handshaw, Inc. I’m working with my staff trainers to convert existing face-to-face training into self-paced, online training. It’s a very slow process because it takes exponentially more time to create self-paced modules that replace what we were doing face-to-face. I’m hoping to implement live, online training this fall. Fellow ALA Learning blogger Paul Signorelli and I are co-authoring a book on leadership for trainers that should be available this summer.
11. What do you wish were you doing?
- I’m doing everything that I want to be doing, I just wish there were more hours in the day to do more and to sleep more.
12. What would you do with a badger?
- Recruit it to the Learning Round Table and teach it to fish!
13. What’s your favorite food?
- Anything that is shared with good conversation and good company.
14. If you were stranded on an island, what one thing would you want to have with you?
- A lifetime supply of insect repellent.
15. Do you know what happens when a grasshopper kicks all the seeds out of a pickle?
16. Post it notes or the back of your hand?
- Post in notes are a GTD nightmare! I use my Outlook/Blackberry tasklist to action items. I use eWallet on my PCs and Blackberry for random information that I need to remember like passwords, printer IP addresses, security codes, etc. eWallet is well worth the small cost!
17. Windows or Mac?
- Doesn’t matter just give me a browser.
18. Talk about one training moment you’d like to forget?
- Potty training!
19. What’s your take on handshakes?
- Ackward early in my career, but now I’m comfortable with them. If I know you though, watchout, I’m more likely to hug you than shake your hand!
20. Global warming: yes or no?
- Ask him.
21. How did you get into this line of work?
- See question 3.
22. What is the best part of your job?
- Just about everything! Seeing the ripple effect that occurs as a result of good planning and strategy. Seeing staff whom I’ve worked with get promoted to new jobs. It’s all good!
23. Why should someone else follow in your shoes?
- Everyone else has a good point of wearing your own shoes, but if you have a passion for learning, love helping people, don’t mind public speaking, and have good problem solving skills then you might want to consider a career in training workplace learning and performance.
24. Sushi or hamburger?
- Hamburger.
25. LSW or ALA?
- I belong to both, and they both have pros and cons.
26. What one person in the world do you want to have lunch with and why?
- Only one? I’m going to break the rules and say the ALA Learning bloggers. I think it would be amazing to get these 12 people all in the same place at the same time. I can’t imagine what the energy would be like!
27. What cell phone do you have and why?
- A pink Blackberry Curve. I really wanted an iPhone but I can’t get a signal in my house using the Blackberry Storm or the iPhone. Verizon gives library employees a 19% discount which is substantial off a bill with two phones and two data plans. I also must have a phone that syncs directly to Outlook (See questions 7 and 16).
27 Questions with Sarah Houghton-Jan
Jan 27th
1) Your One Sentence Bio
I’m an iconoclast who often wishes she could better convince others to find the strength to stand up for their ideals.
2) Do you blog? If yes, how did you come up with your blog name?
I do blog at LibrarianInBlack.net. For my entire library career, librarian or not, I was referred to by library users as “that librarian…you know, the tall one in black.” So, I figured that was a nice name…a bit of a riff on Johnny Cash, and the initials are LIB, which is also a nice library reference.
3) What is your professional background?
I have a BA in English Literature (minor in Psychology), an MA in English/Irish Literature and Mythology, and my MLIS with a focus on technology (which, back in the day less than a decade ago, was a specialty in and of itself, believe it or not).
4) What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes?
I train primarily as a consultant, not in my day job as the San Jose Public Library’s Digital Futures Manager. I train online and in-person, doing a lot of work for Infopeople, California’s library staff training organization. My past jobs, though, have involved training the public, and definitely training staff (something I still try to find time to do).
5) What training do you think is most important to libraries right now?
Dealing with the massive influx of information, change, and how to set up intelligent ways to stay current in our professional areas, including how to position ourselves as the info and media overload experts in our communities.
6) Where do you get your training?
I go to as many relevant free webinars as I can, find the greatest per hour training benefit at InfoToday conferences, and also try to take occasional professional development classes through ALA & its sub-divisions.
7) How do you keep up?
I rely primarily on my several dozen RSS feeds that I read through Google Reader, but have started to rely more on Twitter and the occasional serendipitous Facebook post from my professional contacts.
8 ) What do you think are the biggest challenges libraries are facing right now?
Our biggest challenge is to stop fooling ourselves, each other, and our customers that we can “do more with less” (or let’s be honest, even “do the same with less”).
9) What are biggest challenges for trainers?
Convincing the library power holders that training is an essential use of staff time and should be a priority, and finding ways to reach as many people as possible with the little time and money we have.
10) What exciting things are you doing training wise?
Our training group at work is currently getting ready to launch a databases-themed 23-Things/43-Things style learning course for our staff to help them get more comfortable with our online eResources.
11) What do you wish were you doing?
Resting.
12) What would you do with a badger?
Make friends with him or her.
13) What’s your favorite food?
The vegan garlic bread that I make, dipped in a good marinara sauce.
14) If you were stranded on an island, what one thing would you want to have with you?
Assuming that a “thing” means not a person or a beloved pet, then I would want my iTunes library of 13,000 songs with a solar panel to keep it going.
15) Do you know what happens when a grasshopper kicks all the seeds out of a pickle?
The pickle cries.
16) Post It notes or the back of your hand?
Post It Notes. I’m known for writing notes to myself everywhere, including in the car while driving, on my legendary long commute…which is why my husband so thoughtfully bought me a tiny digital voice recorder to use instead.
17) Windows or Mac?
Linux, darn it.
18) Talk about one training moment you’d like to forget?
I got very ill, to the point of needing to go to the hospital, 15 minutes into an 8 hour training. Fortunately, the wonderful Carole Leita was there as my assistant (which was the universe’s idea of a cosmic joke–I should have been her assistant). But she took over for me, while I spent the next two days in the hospital. Horrible for me, but I was so thankful to her!
19) What’s your take on handshakes?
They spread germs and they’re kind of gendered and culturally-biased intrinsically. I’d rather that we greeted each other the way that Farscape’s beautiful character Zhaan did (a motion with the hands like you’re bringing water up to your face–what beautiful symbolism!). Go watch Farscape, even if you’re not a science fiction fan.
20) Global warming: yes or no
Assuming the question is “does it exist?” then, yes.
21) How did you get into this line of work?
What I liked about English graduate work was the research, and I faultily believed librarianship meant research all the time. Ha! I was had! My teaching background in English served me well and launched me into doing training, bibliographic instruction, and all that jazz during library school–and forever thereafter!
22) What is the best part of your job?
Having the chance to equalize the intellectual playing field in our society for anyone who chooses to use the library. That’s amazing.
23) Why should someone else follow in your shoes?
No one should do exactly what I did – they have to find their own path with their own shoes.
24) Sushi or hamburger?
I’m vegan, so I’ll say–a nice veggie Dan Dan noodles.
25) LSW or ALA?
LSW.
26) What one person in the world do you want to have lunch with and why?
Neil Gaiman. He inspires me through so much of what he does. Plus he’s a literature/mythology buff and author who has embraced technology as a way to get his work out there. I think we’d get along really well.
27) What cell phone do you have and why?
An old Treo, but I’m looking for a new phone and eyeing the Droid options.
23 Questions with Lauren Pressley
Jan 25th
Hi everyone! I’m very excited to be joining the ALA Learning team, and am glad to get to introduce myself in such a fun way. It’s hard to follow so many creative answers, but I liked the format, so here we go…
1. Your One Sentence Bio
- I’m just another geeky librarian.
2. Do you blog? If yes, how did you come up with your blog name?
- I do! I blog over at Lauren’s Library Blog. I know; it’s not really a descriptive name, is it? I started it during library school, when I wasn’t really sure what I was going to end up doing. The vague name allowed me to talk about whatever classes I was taking at the time. A year or so ago I thought about moving to something more descriptive, but apparently I’m not too creative, and just stuck with the same old name.
3. What is your professional background?
- I blogged about this just the other day! I’ve been hanging out and working in libraries for most of my life, since elementary school as a volunteer. All of my full-time work has been at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. First as a microtext specialist, and now as an instructional design librarian.
4. What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes?
- I’ll teach pretty much anything. I teach credit-based courses for undergraduates, one-shot classes for students, workshops and classes for library staff, and even classes for teaching assistants and faculty. Of course, I tend to teach different things to these different audiences; topics range from basic information literacy skills for first year students to information issues for those about to graduate to pedagogy or syllabus design for faculty.
5. What training do you think is most important to libraries right now?
- All training is important. Over and over I hear from people about how hard it is to keep up with things. Trainers that keep up can help other staff members by synthesizing current trends and information and providing the most relevant information in easy to digest sessions.
6. Where do you get your training?
- Three years ago I would have said, “from blogs.” Now I’d say it’s a combination of things: blogs still provide a lot of good content, Twitter points to new information fast, the library literature is full of in-depth information. I listen to a lot of technology related podcasts. I read a lot and spend a lot of time having conversations with people about trends and what they think is important. I also get a lot out of going to conferences and attending sessions. But pretty much, I take it anywhere I can get it, so I’m sure I’m leaving things out.
7. How do you keep up?
- See answer six.
8. What do you think are the biggest challenges libraries are facing right now?
- Time–at least in the libraries that I regularly talk with. It seems that everyone is trying to do more with the same, or less, staff as before. So it’s not very meta, or very big picture (which is very unusual for me), but it is very practical. Finding time to do everything that needs to be doing seems to be a challenge for a lot of us.
9. What are biggest challenges for trainers?
- Well, to piggy-back on question eight, for me it’s planning training sessions that people can actually find time to attend! And it’s hard to know what’s going to resonate with a group. Just last semester I offered a class that several people requested, and no one signed up. I offered another on a whim and at a busier time of year, and it was the best attended workshop I’ve ever led. Figuring out what topics people will be interested in, as well as the timing that will get the most attendees, can be a bigger challenge than it seems.
10. What exciting things are you doing training wise?
- I just wrapped up a program called “teaching teaching” that I worked on with another colleague. For one semester we offered a weekly hour long “class” on basic teaching principles for teaching library staff across campus. There was still demand the next semester, so I facilitated weekly hour long discussions on topics of interest to teaching library staff. We had really good turnout throughout the entire program, but all agreed that now that everyone has a baseline of understanding of teaching topics, we could offer it every few semesters. Now I’m pulling together an online resource for this same group on teaching technologies.
11. What do you wish were you doing?
- I feel very lucky. I love what I’m doing and am quite happy with it!
12. What would you do with a badger?
- Take photos of it and post them to Flickr.
13. What’s your favorite food?
- I like most any food, as long as it’s Vegan.
14. Post it notes or the back of your hand?
- My phone, or maybe Evernote. I’m not a big fan of scraps of paper around my workspace, and I don’t like writing on myself all that much. I keep a notebook for longer notes, and use my phone for short reminders.
15. Windows or Mac?
- Fluent in both, but I’m also using Ubuntu. The three computers I run each have their own OS. My favorite of the three is my Mac.
16. What’s your take on handshakes?
- I’m a fan. Handshakes should be firm.
17. How did you get into this line of work?
- Incredible luck, supportive supervisors and administrators, and with intense enthusiasm.
18. Why is the best part of your job?
- I get to do so many interesting things! No, wait… it’s that I get to think about big picture issues and do something with it! I mean… it’s that I work with really awesome people! Oh, shoot. I’ll never be able to pick the best part.
19. Why should someone else follow in your shoes?
- Ummm, I picked “my shoes” out because they were a good fit for where I wanted to go. I’m guessing people with other destinations or interests might choose different ones. Others will have to judge which shoes will take them where they want to go.
20. Sushi or hamburger?
- Some sort of vegetable sushi.
21. LSW or ALA?
- I adore both. In very different ways.
22. What one person in the world do you want to have lunch with and why?
- I’d time travel to the future (that’s not off limits, is it?) to meet baby boy Borwick. It’d be fun to get to know a little bit about who this little mystery person will be.
23. What cell phone do you have and why?
- I was one of those people standing in line for an iPhone the day they came out. I have been immensely happy with it, though I’ve had to work hard to keep the technology as a tool to make my life easier, rather than a technology that drives my life (for example, by making it too easy to check email all the time). It’s a great little device, and I love how it lets me do things that a bag of gadgets used to let me do.
27 Questions with Buffy Hamilton
Jan 22nd
1) Your One Sentence Bio
A modern day Southern (and shorter) version of Bunny Watson from Desk Set; also a fierce shieldmaiden of intellectual freedom and loyal friend.
2) Do you blog? If yes, how did you come up with your blog name?
Yes, I blog at The Unquiet Librarian; my library brand is The Unquiet Library, which was inspired by Matthew Battles’ book, Library: An Unquiet History. In addition, I am generally pretty talkative, so the moniker fits.
3) What is your professional background?
I have eighteen years of experience with the Cherokee County School District in north Georgia; I have worked as a high school English teacher, instructional technology specialist, elementary teacher, and school librarian. I opened The Unquiet Library at Creekview High School in July of 2006. I proudly wear the red and black of The University of Georgia (M.Ed. English Education, 2003; Ed.S., Instructional Technology and School Library Media, 2005).
4) What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes?
I primarily teach high school students from a wide range of backgrounds and interests in grades 9-12 who visit with teachers in various content areas. I collaborate with classroom teachers to teach a diverse range of skills and learning experiences—searching skills and strategies, information evaluation, website design, social media tools, web 2.0 tools, information management tools and strategies, digital citizenship, presentation zen, blogging skills, and basic computer skills. All of my lessons are supported with research/project pathfinders through LibGuides.
5) What training do you think is most important to libraries right now?
The most important training I am doing right now is teaching learners how to become fluent in self-filtering information —how to know when it is appropriate to use a particular resource for a particular research or information seeking task, and how to manage those information sources as they learn how to cultivate a personal learning network. Expanding our definition of information literacy and helping posit information literacy as an essential literacy is critical right now as we encounter multiple forms of information in a dizzying array of formats or “containers”. Authority is no longer black and white; emerging forms of social scholarship are changing the information landscape, so helping students take an inquiry stance on what counts as authority and when it counts is a must.
6) Where do you get your training?
I primarily learn and grow through my personal learning network via Twitter, Google Reader (an insane array of RSS feeds from many information sources), Facebook, YouTube, and free webinars. In addition, conversations via Skype and Google Talk/chat are incredibly enriching for me. In the past year, conferences have also become a significant source of learning.
7) How do you keep up?
I am blessed with the gift of efficient and effective time management, Energizer Bunny like stamina, and Google Reader.
8.) What do you think are the biggest challenges libraries are facing right now?
Reduced funding in the face of increased demand is a major challenge for all libraries. For school libraries in particular, we are fighting the negative effects of the standardized testing movement as NCLB (No Child Left Behind) marginalizes inquiry and our collaborative partnerships with teachers who are under pressure to “cover” material.
9) What are biggest challenges for trainers?
My biggest challenge is being able to meet the demand for instruction as I do all the training/teaching for nearly 1700 students and 100+ faculty. This challenge is magnified when I am engaging in more in-depth and extensive collaborative units that demand more of my time while still trying to meet the needs of other classes I have scheduled. These challenges are also intensified by the fact that I am also responsible for collection development, website development and our social media presence, library advocacy, and overall program administration. I am most fortunate to be supported by my fellow librarian, Roxanne, and library clerk, Tammy as well as Wayne and Todd, my network gods.
10) What exciting things are you doing training wise?
My Media 21 project that I have implemented during the first semester of the 2009-10 academic year has been by far the most fulfilling and exciting training I have engaged in since opening my library. I have essentially served as a co-teacher daily for two sections of 10th Literature/Composition students, teaching them a diverse range of new skills, including the evaluation of social media, blogging, the use of wikis, the development of learning portfolios with Google Sites, cloud computing tools and skills, how to develop a personal information portal, social bookmarking, and presentation zen.
11) What do you wish were you doing?
Although I sometimes wish that I was not always going in 100 directions at any given time, I am actually really doing exactly what I want to at the moment—building a library program that makes a difference in the lives of my students and faculty and changing people’s perceptions about the possibilities of a high school library. I have an amazing network of colleagues and friends who inspire me and inform my practice—I am truly blessed to do what I do.
12) What would you do with a badger?
I would warn it to be nice to me because I have four long-haired dachshunds.
13) What’s your favorite food?
Does coffee count? If not, anything with cheese.
14) If you were stranded on an island, what one thing would you want to have with you?
Good lip gloss, sunscreen, my iPhone, and a great book (yes, I know that is more than one)
15) Do you know what happens when a grasshopper kicks all the seeds out of a pickle?
It takes a nap.
16) Post it notes or the back of your hand?
Post it notes—my workstation and workspace at the circulation desk look like a rainbow of Post it notes.
17) Windows or Mac?
Windows but I’d like to explore the Mac world.
18) Talk about one training moment you’d like to forget?
In my first ever solo webinar this past fall about widgets, my laptop crashed about five minutes into the presentation. It took nearly twenty minutes to recover and get back in the Elluminate classroom. Fortunately, I was able to resume without sounding too rattled and was grateful for my fellow colleagues who picked up the baton and led a discussion about uses of widgets until I was able to get back online.
19) What’s your take on handshakes?
Shake firmly but don’t crush my hand, please.
20) Global warming: yes or no
I honestly have not reached any definitive conclusions yet.
21) How did you get into this line of work?
I realized this was the perfect career for me back in 2001 because it taps into my passions for technology, reading, research, and teaching.
22) What is the best part of your job?
Seeing a student or teacher smile with satisfaction when you have helped them in some way or have helped them realize they can do something they previously could not envision.
23) Why should someone else follow in your shoes?
They can’t because I have tiny feet and have a propensity for killer shoes with four inch heels. Find your own shoes, click your heels three times, and make your own library dreams come true!
24) Sushi or hamburger?
Hamburger from time to time (not a big meat eater) but not sushi—I have a moderate shellfish allergy.
25) LSW or ALA?
Both—I am less comfortable with binaries as I get older.
26) What one person in the world do you want to have lunch with and why?
This is probably the most difficult question for me as I could generate a list of people past and present. For now, I would choose author and illustrator Peter Sis—I had the pleasure of meeting him earlier this year and would love to hear more of his mesmerizing stories and of his passion for his art.
27) What cell phone do you have and why?
My iPhone I purchased this past July—it is like having a little computer with me all the time, and it has been invaluable in my conference travels over the last six months.
Stephanie Zimmerman’s Turn…
Jan 21st
I will use the ORIGINAL 27 questions proposed for the T is for Training gang. Here goes (answers in bold)…
1) Your One Sentence Bio
A surrendering to something greater than myself mother and wife who likes to sing and is a training coordinator for a public library system.
2) Do you blog? If yes, how did you come up with your blog name?
Yes. I always warn the library-types I train that I am NOT a creative-type; I’m more of a math/science-type, and I don’t come up with very original stuff; hence, the name of this blog…
3) What is your professional background?
I have a BA in Social Work with a minor in Spanish and I almost finished a tech degree in Computer Information Systems. See question 21 for more details.
4) What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes?
Strictly staff/volunteers. Millennium ILS, Microsoft Office, Social Media, and anything else staff/volunteers need to use a computer for in our libraries.
5) What training do you think is most important to libraries right now
How to do advocacy well – something I know nothing about but can see is desperately needed.
6) Where do you get your training?
I LOVE webinars, especially the free variety as that works well with my current budget.
7) How do you keep up?
If only I could! I do my best through RSS (just made the switch from Bloglines to Google Reader last week and LOVE it), tweets, Facebook, Friendfeed, podcasts, video, flickr, etc.
(that’s supposed to be an 8, but the coding keeps putting a cool face with shades here, whatever!) What do you think are the biggest challenges libraries are facing right now?
Funding, funding, oh, and funding!
9) What are biggest challenges for trainers?
For underfunded and understaffed libraries to see the value of time/cost needed for training.
10) What exciting things are you doing training wise?
Currently working on being able to offer some e-learning Microsoft tutorials through CustomGuide.
11) What do you wish were you doing?
Wish I were home with my 2 beautiful girls. For a more work-related answer, I wish I could be training the public; the patrons, on all things technology with a focus on social media.
12) What would you do with a badger?
Stand at least twenty feet away from it. Wait, make that thirty feet.
13) What’s your favorite food?
Teff, an amazing Ethiopian grain. I gave up all forms of sugar, wheat and flour over 9 years ago and have discovered so many amazing foods.
14) If you were stranded on an island, what one thing would you want to have with you?
My family.
15) Do you know what happens when a grasshopper kicks all the seeds out of a pickle?
It’s left with a seedless pickle.
16) Post it notes or the back of your hand?
Post it notes – everywhere…
17) Windows or Mac?
Windows, but wish I weren’t.
18) Talk about one training moment you’d like to forget?
I had a training while working in private industry where we were shoved in a room big enough to hold a small round table and I had to train the president, vp and 2 other high ranking people (usually the hardest types to train as they usually have other people do everything for them) for 2 straight days; agony!
19) What’s your take on handshakes?
They are a necessary evil.
20) Global warming: yes or no
I’m afraid the answer is… yes.
21) How did you get into this line of work?
Feel free to read the twisted tale here.
22) What is the best part of your job?
Watching someones eyes grow big and hear them let out an “oooh” or an “ahhh” when they learn how to do something really cool or something that will save them TONS of time on a computer.
23) Why should someone else follow in your shoes?
I have to agree with Peter here and suggest people find their own pair of shoes.
24) Sushi or hamburger?
Neither thank you. Refer to question 13.
25) LSW or ALA?
LSW, it’s hip, it’s what I can afford, and it allows me to wear a cape when I’m in the mood.
26) What one person in the world do you want to have lunch with and why?
Mary, the mother of God, to ask her how she survived motherhood and how to cultivate unconditional love and acceptance.
27) What cell phone do you have and why?
A Motorola E815 I got over 5 years ago because it still works, I only use it for telephone calls, and I’m too broke to afford a data plan.


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