Here's the thing.  I just try to do my absolute best every day and be honest with the people around me.  I love my husband, all the kids under my roof, my animals, and God my Creator.  I teach band and choir in a small, rural, mostly Hispanic school district.  The things I love to do, and which make me who I am, are: knitting, weaving, sewing, reading, and cooking.  I trained for and finished my first sprint-distance triathlon in May, completed another one on August 2, and now I am training for another, twice as long, on August 30.  Did I mention I love to knit? I play piano, too, for my choir students, mostly country songs but I can also play the Charlie Brown song.  My signature dish AND ultimate food is a loaf of freshly baked bread, which of course must be slathered with real butter.   People think I'm sweet and quiet when they first meet me, but later are surprised to find out I have the capacity to be blunt and opinionated.  I firmly believe that all stories are true, and that some of them actually happened.  The core of my Christian faith is this:  Jesus said to love one another.  Period.  No more need be said.