Graduate of St. Stephen, Class of 1984

I began working for St. Stephen part-time in 2018 and then full-time in 2020 as communications and marketing coordinator. Communications took on a whole new meaning during the pandemic. I have never learned so many new things in such a short period of time.

I went to grade school at St. Stephen before high school at Notre Dame and college at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., where I earned a degree in English. I moved back to Holly Hills in 1997 with my husband, Mark, then sent our four kids to school here at SSP. Having been a student, an alumna, a parishioner / school parent, and now an employee, it seems I can't quit this place. Now that I'm the mother of alumni and employees ... well, the universe is folding in on itself.

Outside of work I enjoy hiking, talking to trees and insects, knitting, doing crosswords, nagging my children, and ingesting as much information as I can with my eyes and ears.

Favorite book: The Book of Job, anything by Jonathan Safran Foer, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series (my infinitely re-readable comfort food), John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley, John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, Marilynne Robinson's Gilead series, Richard Powers' The Overstory, Thomas Merton's The Sign of Jonas, anything by David Sedaris, Stephen King's On Writing, Frederick Buechner's Alphabet of Grace, Ross Gay's The Book of Delights, Nate Staniforth's Here Is Real Magic, Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire ......................

Favorite movie: The Tree of Life, Saturday Night Fever, Band of Brothers, Moonstruck, Finding Nemo, A Room With a View, Inglorious Basterds, Flirting With Disaster, Paterson, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid .........................

Favorite song: "Me and Bobby McGee," Janis Joplin rendition; Debussy's "Clair de Lune"; "The Luckiest," Ben Folds; "Annie's Song," John Denver; "Nights on Broadway," Bee Gees; Mozart's "Requiem"; "Possession," by Sarah McLachlan; "Purple Rain," Prince ..............................

Poems? Podcasts? TV series that know when to end? (unlike this bio!!!) ...................