Who am I?

I am excited to be taking this course this summer as I believe the subject matter of multimodal rhetoric is fascinating and relevant.  I have one more year to complete my undergrad in Liberal Studies, Quaternity Option and couldn't be more excited!   I recently transferred from the Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems major due to scheduling conflicts, but remain focused on sustainability issues
 and particularly sustainable agriculture.  I believe this course will contribute to my ability to communicate the issues surrounding sustainability to a wide audience and hopefully to my ability to affect change in our world.

My husband John and I have been in the Gallatin Valley for 18 years.   I am originally from Kansas and grew up in a wheat farming family.  We have two boys, Nicholas and Haylan:  Nicholas is 9 and finishing the third grade and Haylan is 5 and will be starting kindergarten in August.  They are the joy of my life and keep me on my toes at all times!  It is certainly a juggling act with full-time school but they are always on the top of my priority list (unless its finals week...hehe!).  In addition to my status as mother, wife and full-time student, I own a bookkeeping business with a handful of clients so I can pay the mortgage and the tuition bill! 

When I am not in the role of mother, wife, student, housekeeper, chauffeur, cook, etc. I enjoy gardening, reading, and occasionally having cocktails with my girlfriends.  I have recently been getting into food preservation, so we have a stockpile of canned tomatoes in the pantry and frozen kale in the freezer.  I can't wait to try some new recipes for green tomato salsa and pickles this fall!  I intend to write a proposal for a school garden at the Heck/Quaw Elementary School as my Senior capstone and hopefully I will have the opportunity to see this dream become a reality.