20 useless facts about me:

1. I have an M.A. in Criminal Justice, but photography is my passion.

2. I hit my head on everything.  No one even asks me anymore if I am OK.

3. I have a serious addiction to baby carrots and sugar snap peas, which I eat by the bagful.  It is an expensive habit - just ask my husband.

4. I love to cook everything from scratch and have a huge collection of cookbooks to prove it.

5. I just learned how to use the camera on my phone a couple of months ago.  But I have no idea how to get the pictures onto my computer.

6. I almost never have cash on me, so I can't help you out if you need to pay the parking meter.  Sorry.

7. Next to my camera, my favorite possession is my Seagull guitar with mahogony back and top.  I love to sit on the living room floor in the evenings with some Guiliani or Carcassi, or my book of Wyndham Hill music.......it is a huge source of decompression for me.

8. I studied British Law in London, have traveled throughout the world, but I'm still a Buffalo girl at heart.

9. I thrive on busyness and my schedule reflects that.

10. I am working on climbing all the 46 Adirondack High Peaks with my kids.....one of my favorite places to be in any season.

11. Some day I would like to climb to Mt. Everest Base Camp.  Not the mountain itself......that would be foolhardy.

12. When I am home alone or in my car, the music is cranked.

13. I make friends with many of my customers, and we hang out and chat on Facebook (where you can usually find me when I am proofing).

14. I am a car slob, although it is getting better.  My husband says I could survive in my car for 2 weeks.  I think I've got it down to 24-48 hours.

15. I feel things very strongly through music and am very particular about what I am listening to at any given time.  Although I have come to love pandora.com.  (I have a lot of specific stations though!)

16. I have an aptitude for remembering phone numbers, even from eons ago.  Almost any alpha-numeric, really.  (I know my library card number - not normal.)  It's like an idiot-savant thing.   Without the savant part.

17. I am a pescefowletarian.  Is that a word?  Well, it is now.

18. I love the smell of Home Depot.  I think I can smell the possibilities.....

19. There is not much I dislike more than playing chess, and I live in a household of tournament chess players (and have a black and white cat named Checkmate).

20. A couple of years ago, I ran into my former supervisor from my 9-5 days, who told me "You're living the dream Michele!"  He was so right.  I absolutely love my job.

Photo of me by my 13 year old son.