I arrived in Portland on January 21, 2005 for a four week stint filling in on the morning show. Five years and nine months later, I am still here. I am grateful every day for the opportunity to live in such a great city!

Before Portland, I spent almost 8 years in Nashville, Tenn. I worked for a music trade magazine as the Nashville Bureau Chief and Country Editor. I was able to meet nearly every Country music artist. The songwriting community in Nashville is amazing!

I grew up and spent my first 30-something years in Santa Monica, Calif. I have to say Santa Monica is a fantastic city, even though now it's almost "too cool". I grew up swimming in the Pacific Ocean, so to me, venturing into the Atlantic here, is tough!!

My favortie movies tend to be small artsy or foreign films...."Life Is Beautiful," "Notes On A Scandal," "Cinema Paradiso". I am not into most of the blockbusters...Star Wars, Star Trek, Pirates of the Carribean, Batman, Superman. I don't have a lot of extra time, so I prefer to see the movies I think will appeal to me more.

Reading is a big hobby. I've read since I was a teen and I think it has directly impacted my ability to be a decent writer. I love thrillers, King VIII-era "bodice rippers," and I just finished reading the entire series of Sookie Stackhouse books that were the basis for HBO's "True Blood" series.

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