Yes, thanks to Alice, I have been tagged with my first meme. Happily, it is the most open-ended meme of all: List 10 random facts about myself, LOL!!
Here goes (wow, this is harder than I thought):
1. MacBeth is really my middle name. It's also my mother's middle name, and the maiden name of her grandmother. I high school, some kids heard that it was my middle name and started using it. I kept it in college, as there were several other "Nancys" in my class, but I was the only MacBeth.
2. I auditioned for Zoom when I was in 4th grade, and was overcome with an incredible case of stage fright at WGBH studios, thus failing the audition. After many stage appearances, and one TV documentary, I am over it. ;)
3. When I lived in Boston, I attended that oldest public school in the country, Boston Latin School. Despite that history, I homeschool my kids.
4. I hate maggots. If I call you a "maggot," you are surely insulted. When I worked at a wildlife refuge, I once found a maggot-covered deer carcass in a bag of dead-animals-to-be-fed-to-other-animals ("waste not, want not" was the motto of the refuge). That about did me in.
5. My first aviation experience was in a 2-man plane when I was 9. The pilot, a family friend, kept the cockpit open so I could feel how fast we were traveling!
6. My favorite TV show of all time is Star Trek, but my kids "Annika," "Libby" and "Trip" were all named before their namesake characters were introduced to the Trekker world. Premonition? ("Annika" is in Voyager, "Libby" is Harry Kim's earthbound girlfriend on Voyager, and "Trip," whose sister is "Elizabeth," is in Enterprise. Paul takes solace in that Chekhov's name is "Pavel," which is "Paul" in Russian.) Oh, and a troupe of traveling actors performed Macbeth once...
7. I have read the Chronicles of Narnia every year since 2nd grade, when a mid-term substitute teacher replaced our regular teacher (who was having a baby) and read The Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe to us. Thank you, Amy Barker; C. S. Lewis is why I am still Catholic.
8. I LOVE the Tridentine Mass!!!!!!!!
9. Lobster. 'Nuff said.
10. Until last summer, Tuscany was the most beautiful place I had ever been. But now, I am sure that Aspen, Colorado in the summer is the best place on earth. OK. Maybe. I still love Boston. And the Grand Canyon is pretty fun. And so is Paris. Oh, and Stonehenge. True confession: I love to travel! I also love to drive! I love to sail! Did I mention how much I love Mexico? And Canada? And the Caribbean? And all of America?
