Independent

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being outdoors and doing something that I love like biking, running, golfing, skiing or hiking.

What is your greatest fear?
Death

Which living person do you most admire?
My mom.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
That’ll work.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Forgetting people’s names.

What do you dislike most about your appearance?
My short legs.

Which living person do you most despise?

Despise is such a harsh word. I despise people like terrorists, murderersand those that commit certain crimes.

What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Chocolate

Which talent would you most like to have?
To shoot par.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My height.

If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
That it were larger.

If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
Probably a cat.

What is your most treasured possession?
A cassette with my grandmother singing.

What is your favorite occupation?
I’d better say it is being the Business Manager for Independent.

What is your most marked characteristic?
Independence

What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty.

Who are your favorite writers?
Nothing too deep. Carl Hiaasen, Bill Bryson, John MacDonald, Sue Grafton.

Who are your heroes in real life?
My mom and my acupuncturist.

What is it that you most dislike?
People that lie to my face and anchovies.

How would you like to die?
I don’t want to die but if/when I do…in my sleep.

What is your motto?
Can’t take it with you.