Current prosecuting attorney, former public defender, future [down the road] criminal defense attorney. Am the mother of two young, wonderful, kind, brilliant, beautiful daughters, ages 8 and 4. Also, depending on whether one counts dating, living-in, or marital anniversaries, I've been with my husband respectively 21 years, 15 years, or 10 1/2 years! My mother's people were Norwegian immigrants who settled in Minnesota and included both a father and son who fought with Sherman in the Civil War, and her father (my Grandpa Ole) who helped start the Farmer Laborite Movement during the Great Depression. My Dad's people were Russian Jews escaping from Czarist-era Russia and anti-Semitic pogroms there.

Hiking, camping, reading, listening to music, going to movies, playing with my kids, political activism and blogging

Law
Reading
Racecar driving (as a spectator and for one blissful season as a participant at a local track)
Hiking
Camping
Politics

Eclectic -- with rare exceptions I like everything from opera to heavy metal. My standard comfort music is 60's era soul, R&B;, rock and roll, motown, and country-fried rock.

The Rockford Files
The Prisoner
House M.D.
Dexter
Hunter and Hunted
Forensic Files
Murder by the Book
The Investigators

The Americanization of Emily, Victor/Victoria, Murphy's Romance, Marlowe
Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, The Omega Man, Will Penny, Soylent Green
Indiana Jones movies, Witness, The Fugitive, Six Days/Seven Nights, Sabrina
Ghosts of Mississippi, Mississippi Burning, Holocaust, Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan, Flags of our Fathers, The Longest Day, The Bridge at Remagen

Too numerous to list.... Have read To Kill A Mockingbird and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer to point of memorization as a child. Am currently reading a fictionalized account of a real-life event in which forensic science and odontology helped solve the mass murder of several hundred Jews in a small Polish town during WWII...showing it was Polish villagers who murdered their fellows, including women and children, under the approving eye of the SS and the Gestapo.

"Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it." -- George Santayana
"Whatever does not kill you makes you stronger." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing." -- Edmund Burke
"First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." -- Pastor Martin Niemöller
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi,
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Clarence Darrow
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Rosa Parks
Robert Kennedy
Queen Latifah