Who am I….today?

TrishE is a Language Lab Director, Teacher, Instructional Technologist, Doctoral Student, Wife, Daughter, Granddaughter, Aunt, Friend… Gardener, Gadget-freak, Knitter, Weaver, Dog-and-cat-lover …Christian…Can just one lifetime be long enough?

I’m 40 years old, and I’ve only just now realized that I spent the best years my 30’s curled up in a little sad ball and trying desperately to overcome my infertility. Well, NO MORE!

I’m happily married to a gorgeous and musically-talented man who adores me (and rightfully so!). I have a great family, full of eccentric Southerners, the most amazing grandparents ever, crazy and delightful aunts, a mother who has found her calling as a professional worrier and co-conspirator, a stoic ex-military dad who can do just about anything, three clever cats, and a loving mixed-bred dog named Abby. A passel of amazing and talented friends rounds out the collection of individuals who are dear to my heart.

Since emerging from the darkness of my mid-thirties, I’ve rediscovered my faith, enrolled in a doctoral program in Instructional Technology, relocated closer to my family, and taught myself many new skills, such as gardening, canning, and knitting. (I half-jokingly refer to these as the skills I’ll need when I move onto the survivalist compound following the post-catastrophic-electromagnetic-pulse disaster. Really, I’m at least half-joking….)

I enjoy spending hours cooking up half-baked crazy-ambitious dreams that usually involve rescuing orphans and oppressed child-laborers around the world, and almost always would require a complete upheaval in my life to pull them off.

But I’m an Army-brat: I thrive on upheaval!