About Me

  • About Me: I am a Christian, a wife to the most wonderful man in the world, & a soon-to-be mom (Lord-willing). We're in the process of adopting a baby from Ethiopia. I have just accepted a teaching position for elementary music at our local Christian school, and I also teach private piano lessons. I enjoy teaching Sunday school to 2-3 year-olds and running the book table at our church. And speaking of our church, we love it & are so thankful to be a part of the group at Heritage.

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: The Magic of Ordinary Days, Chariots of Fire, Father of the Bride 2, Pride & Prejudice (Both the miniseries & the recent movie), Sense & Sensibility, Ever After, The Bourne Movies, Star Wars, LOTR, Mission Impossible, The Hunt for Red October
  • Favorite Actors: Denzel, Claire Danes
  • Favorite Genre: Mystery/Action/Adventure
  • Favorite Soundtracks: First Contact, First Knight, Air Force One, Pride & Prejudice (the new one), Love Affair, Gettysburg, Father of the Bride 2, anything by Jerry Goldsmith

Television

  • Favorite Shows: 24, LOST, Foyle's War, Inspector Lynley Mysteries
  • Favorite Channels: All I get is Fox & PBS
  • Favorite Reruns: Little House on the Prairie, Andy Griffith, Perry Mason
  • Most Addictive Show: LOST

Books

  • Favorite Books: Desiring God (Piper), Let the Nations Be Glad (Piper), Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis), Safely Home (Alcorn), Heaven (Alcorn)
  • Favorite Authors: Piper, C.S. Lewis, Jane Austen, Randy Alcorn
  • Favorite Genres: children's lit, mysteries
  • Favorite Characters: Li Xuan, Mr. Darcy
  • Favorite Quotes: "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." --C.S. Lewis (in Mere Christianity)
  • Recent Reads: Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart - John Ensor, Caught in the Web - Faith Cook, Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie - LIW, Dominion - Randy Alcorn, Safely Home - Randy Alcorn

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Sovereign Grace, Steven Curtis Chapman, Nickel Creek, Cambridge Singers, Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Bryn Terfel, Michael Card, Josh Groban, Shannon Harris
  • Favorite Albums: Unveiled Hope (Michael Card), Worship God Live (Sovereign Grace), Valley of Vision (Sovereign Grace), Faire is the Heaven (Cambridge Singers/John Rutter)
  • Favorite Songs: "Ave Maria" (Franz Biebl), "Selig sind die Toten" (Heinrich Schutz), "Belshazzar's Feast" (William Walton), "Requiem" (Mozart), "Ein Deutches Requiem" (Brahms), "Beati Quorum Via" (Stanford), "Messiah" (Handel)... I know some of these are major works, not 'songs,' but there wasn't a place for major works! :)

More About Me

  • Heroes: Mark Redfern, my parents, Ann Judson, William Wilberforce, Eric Liddel
  • Expertise: music
  • Occupation: teacher
  • Industry: music

Travel

  • Places I've been: Germany (Berlin, Leipzig, & Dresden), Austria (Vienna), Czech Republic (Prague), Hungary (Budapest), Brazil (Belo Horizonte)
  • Places to see before I die: Whatever countries my children are born in; Grand Canyon, United Kingdom (all of it), Prince Edward Island, Alaska