Five questions
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goddessofmercy. I guess how this works is you can comment and I will ask you five questions of my own design in return.
1. what would you like your old age to be like?
I'd like my old age to be fun. I'd like to be healthy enough to be active, lots of walking and playing with grandkids and travel. I'd like to have money enough to contribute to my ocmmunity. There is a couple in Juneau who've been married for 60+ years and must be nearing their 90s. They provide tons of money and support and enthusiasm to the opera, the symphony, different theatre groups, independent movie stuff.... plus, they still find time to write (he's an economist and she's a childrens book author). Yup, I'd like to be like Jean and George Rogers.
2. do you cook and if so what is your favorite meal to make?
I do cook.... well, I used to, before I moved to a kitchen-less grad dorm and gave away/lost out on all of the kitchen items I once had. I tend to have two creations that I always make: rum cake and my garlicky salad. I don't think I have a single favorite meal to make, although something pasta/tomatoey with salad and wine might be close.
3. what do you consider your greatest weakness?
Um... I should probably let others answer this.
Alaska. Sometimes I feel very unprepared for participating in contemporary American life. I also have a tendency to compare everything to Alaska.
4. is there anyone famous, or well-known for something in your family tree?
Not as far as I know, though there are some good stories. Like the soldier in the 1700s who crossed some river in the northeast every night to see his sweetheart in Canada and then died of pneumonia before the baby was born. Or the staggeringly wealthy land holder in Australia who gambled everything away. Or my wacky grandfather who moved to Alaska in the 1930s, went to back to Iowa to find a wife (his first) and then took her up the Taku River to live in a hunting shed. When in her misery she couldn't take it anymore, he rowed her the 30 miles or something back to town, dropped her off, and never saw her again. We're a stubborn bunch, us Whitings.
5. what place in the world would you never want to visit and why?
Nuclear test sites, cholera ridden polluted rivers in the third world, Gaza, um... elementary schools in Chechnya, George W's house.... I'd go just about anywhere really. If you showed up with a ticket to Uzbekistan or to a tour of village Colombia, I'd go.
goddessofmercy. I guess how this works is you can comment and I will ask you five questions of my own design in return.1. what would you like your old age to be like?
I'd like my old age to be fun. I'd like to be healthy enough to be active, lots of walking and playing with grandkids and travel. I'd like to have money enough to contribute to my ocmmunity. There is a couple in Juneau who've been married for 60+ years and must be nearing their 90s. They provide tons of money and support and enthusiasm to the opera, the symphony, different theatre groups, independent movie stuff.... plus, they still find time to write (he's an economist and she's a childrens book author). Yup, I'd like to be like Jean and George Rogers.
2. do you cook and if so what is your favorite meal to make?
I do cook.... well, I used to, before I moved to a kitchen-less grad dorm and gave away/lost out on all of the kitchen items I once had. I tend to have two creations that I always make: rum cake and my garlicky salad. I don't think I have a single favorite meal to make, although something pasta/tomatoey with salad and wine might be close.
3. what do you consider your greatest weakness?
Um... I should probably let others answer this.
Alaska. Sometimes I feel very unprepared for participating in contemporary American life. I also have a tendency to compare everything to Alaska.
4. is there anyone famous, or well-known for something in your family tree?
Not as far as I know, though there are some good stories. Like the soldier in the 1700s who crossed some river in the northeast every night to see his sweetheart in Canada and then died of pneumonia before the baby was born. Or the staggeringly wealthy land holder in Australia who gambled everything away. Or my wacky grandfather who moved to Alaska in the 1930s, went to back to Iowa to find a wife (his first) and then took her up the Taku River to live in a hunting shed. When in her misery she couldn't take it anymore, he rowed her the 30 miles or something back to town, dropped her off, and never saw her again. We're a stubborn bunch, us Whitings.
5. what place in the world would you never want to visit and why?
Nuclear test sites, cholera ridden polluted rivers in the third world, Gaza, um... elementary schools in Chechnya, George W's house.... I'd go just about anywhere really. If you showed up with a ticket to Uzbekistan or to a tour of village Colombia, I'd go.