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Married, mother of three adult children. Been married for 30 years to a wonderful Argentine fellow. We have 2 boys and one girl. All grownups now. Daughter got married in April. Now I have a son-in-law!

I also work full-time as an Associate Librarian and am the assistant manager of a small public library. I've been working the for about 15 years. I do preschool storytimes and outreach programs for a few local preschools, and a kindergarten readiness program.

I love writing letters, getting letters, sending letters, making funny stuff to send in the mail. All things mail. I've even read books filled with other peoples letters & notes & lists, etc. I would love to have some new pen pals. What fun it is to make new friends!

I've spent my life working with children in one capacity or another. Youth at my church. Babysitting. Facilitating workshops for troubled youth & their parents. Taking care of my own kids while having half the neighborhood at my house on any given day.

Love, love, love to read. Anything clean. I especially adore youth fiction/fantasy, historical fiction & kids books. Brochures. Flyers. Cereal box labels. You name it. I've even been known to read the occasional instruction manual.

I love to journal and have kept a journal since I was about 8 or 9 years old. (Now i'm 58 - that's lot of journals!) I've just started adding some "art" to my journaling and have been bullet journaling since 2016.

The Great Alone, Remarkably Bright Creatures, A Man Called Ove, The Chilbury Ladies Choir, The Spies of Shilling Place, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, The Women in the Castle, Artiface, The Orphan Collector, When Zackary Beaver Came to Town,Ish, The Librarian of Saint-Malo, The Dictionary of Lost words, Gallant, Mickey Bolitar Series, I Must Betray You, Before We Were Yours, The Lazy Genius Way, Cilka's Journey, Unoffendable, The Paper Girl of Paris, The Hunger Games, The Outsiders, The Alchemist, Gregor the Overlander Series, Leven Thumps Series, Eragon Series, The Candy Shop Wars, Seventeen Summer, The Giver, Ink Heart series, Cinder, Legend, The Girl Who Came Home, The House Girl, scriptures, magazines, biographies an occasional or a good memoir. Oh, and cereal boxes.

Historical, dystopian, science fiction, fantasy, the occasional clean romance. Adventure. Fractured fairy tales. I enjoy middle-grade, teen, and adult books. I'm on Goodreads if you want the full list.

The Office, Communtiy, CSI, Criminal Minds, The Middle, Hawaii 5-0, Andy Griffeth Show, Monk, SWAT, The Rookie, Stranger Things, Broadchurch, Foyle's War, Hinterland, Lie to Me, The Other One, The Resident, The Good Doctor, Land Girls, Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey, BBC pretty much.

Oingo Boingo, Depeche Mode, U2, Van Halen, The Cure, INXS, Aha, Alphaville, Phil Collins, Genesis, The Cutting Crew, Duran Duran, Enya, Eurythmics, Asia, Robert Plant, Bruce Hornseby & The Range, Michael Jackson, Journey, Mike & The Mechanics, most things 80's, The Piano Guys. The Two Cellos. Cold Play. Imagine Dragons. King & Country. Instrumental music.

When my son introduced me to Spotify, I was in Heaven!

Mailart, creating postcards, minizines, art journaling, collage, journaling (making travel journals). Have been trying to learn to watercolor paint.

Postcards of all kinds, especially black and whites, antique, ad cards. (Nothing nude/vulgar)

Sticky notes. Washi tape. Ephemera.

Water color paper.

I participate in Postcrossing.com

And MoreLoveLetters.com. At Christmas time, they host a 12 days of letter writing and this has become a personal tradition that I look forward to every year.

Please let me know if you have not received my swap or a rating. I do live a bit off the beaten path, so things might take a day or two longer to arrive.

I'm allergic to cats and am not a big fan of cats. I do like little dogs. Am about to inherit a bunny.

Please do not send anything with nudity or raunchy content.

Not interested in politics.

I don't drink tea or coffee.