Share something interesting that people might not know about you...

1. I am the only person I know to play in the Goin' Band from Raiderland (1975) and also play Tech football (1976 & 1977).
2. I was adopted when I was three days old and sold for $10 by the State of South Carolina to my parents. Two years ago, I went on a journey to find my biological family, thanks to my dear friend and classmate Janet Brown. Long story short, I found them in North Carolina and have built a beautiful relationship with my sisters, a niece and a nephew.
3. I took up curling. In addition to shipping teams, I became a club coach, including coaching a blind curling team to bronze and silver medals. I love to travel and cycled a month in France, Germany and Denmark - seeing four stages of the Tour de France.
4. My husband and I rented a farmhouse in Scotland for two months that was on the same farm Will and Kate lived on when they went to University of St. Andrews. It was owned by a distant cousin of William. This is the family that owned the land the "old course" is on now. They couldn't decide whether to make it a rabbit farm or start something new called golf!
5. I worked on a yacht in Europe for nine months, built boats and sailed from  Australia to England around Cape Horn.
6. I hung out with Sam Elliott backstage after taping a segment of "The Ranch".
7. I spent the night in the Tower of London in a haunted room (sorry, no ghost story).
8. I represented Lubbock as "Community Ambassador" to Spain in 1980. I won an all-expense-paid trip for six weeks and made presentations to 22 organizations in Lubbock.
9. I went to the Dancing with the Stars show and was on TV. I am a two-time breast cancer survivor.
10. I met Queen Elizabeth.
11. I invented and coded one of the first learning management systems in the early 90s used by healthcare systems in the U.S.
12. Chelsea Clinton, Ivanka Trump, George Clooney & Jenna Bush have received baby gifts from my wholesale company (I have pictures...)
13. I was a doctor for Jerry Rice.
14. Travel has always been my passion. Last year, we completed being able to see the final "Wonder of the World" - the Taj Mahal.
15. I am co-author of a 1st and 2nd edition.
16. I've made 13 moves in 46 years and now am getting to live my childhood dream of living in the mountains - in Durango, CO.
17. Really nothing...I'm just me!
18. My home burned down on Jan. 20, 2025. Luckily, I had great insurance! I retired in June 2025 from Austin ISD.
19. My hair is still its natural color!
20. I've had two open heart surgeries and am still alive.
21. I over-served myself with Joe Ely in the green room at Wildflower in Richardson, TX.
22. I have one passion: making childrens' quilts for Cooks Childrens Hospital in Fort Worth, TX.
23. In six years, we had two weddings & 10 grandkids. Our 11th grandkid was born June 11, 2025 in their hall bathroom.
24. I worked for Sun Oil Co. in Dallas.
25. I was a Spanish teacher for 20 years and a high school guidance counselor for 12 years.
26. I got caught in the 2024 yellow vest riots in Paris, France. 
27. I volunteer for Cigars for Warriors. We ship donated cigars to deployed soldiers, airmen, Marines, etc.
28. I'm an ordained minister. I have been coaching a baseball team of special needs kids for the last 10 years. I have climbed into the pyramids in Egypt, swam and hiked the Galapagos Islands, scuba dived in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, climbed Machu Picchu in Peru, and dog sledded in Alaska with the Iditarod team.
29. I'm still alive after a ruptured appendix (lost 65 pounds), a pituitary tumor, a stroke and a replaced knee. My first wife said I was the Six Million Dollar Man; I think it's more like a couple thousand dollars.
30. My company nominated me for an award for community service. Out of 22,000 entries, I won Central Texas Community Service Award for 2024.
31. I was the first Hispanic president of the Lubbock Association of Realtors. I sell Spanish Church of Christ songbooks.

1. Rick Bell, 2. Bobbie Kates Gutierrez, 3. Hal Cain, 4. Janet Brown Hutchison, 5. Jill Cocanougher, 6. Mike Chetty, 7. Leslie Simpson Olson, 8. Karen Cole Bieber, 9. Debbie Berry Wade, 10. Kenneth Koen, 11. Steve Price,
12. Becky Taylor Bryan, 13. Elaine Hardwick Lambert, 14. Dennis Dillon, 15. Scott Taylor, 16. Gena Sedgwick Hoffman, 17. Mona Mosley Hagen, 18. Liz Patrick Silver, 19. Christy Williamson Moore, 20. Kirk Price, 21. Cliff Goff,
22. Brenda Beckner Steed, 23. Paula Reeds Gibson, 24. Rita Ruff Papst, 25. Esther Chavez Limon, 26. Becky Hubbard Taylor, 27. Paul Hinman, 28. Bruce Fillingim, 29. Rock Read, 30. Dennis Benton, 31. Debora Perez-Ruiz