A few things
about me

I’m a new Texan! My most recent move was from Florida, but I spent many years in D.C., L.A., and grew up mostly in Maine.

My favorite gifts to give and receive are handwritten cards. You can buy yourself anything, but you can’t buy the thoughts and handwriting of someone you love.

I like beer (NA these days :-), baseball, and gangster movies, but also When Harry Met Sally and stilettos and unicorns. I’m a feminine tomboy…is that a thing?

I believe in good hugs and strong handshakes.

I love adventure - and to me that includes everything from a quick jump in the ocean or jaunt to the ice cream shop, to a spontaneous trip overseas to follow up on a feeling (<— actual life event).

I’ll say yes to trying almost anything.

I don’t volunteer a lot of information about myself - but I’ll tell you anything about me if I’m asked. Openness is very important to me. I don’t think there’s anything worth hiding - we’re all doing the best we can. None of us is perfect. And our openness allows others to feel free to do the same.

Spiritual freedom is something I actively work on and make a priority in my life.

I have a giant fluffy puppy named Lucy Lou. People say she’s a person in a dog suit. I agree. And a tiny fluffy puppy named Gelly (short for Gelato. I’m half Italian, and a sucker for ice cream). Those two are happiness itself in fluff form.

I drive a little blue GTI named Baby Blue. I bought her because I was afraid stick shifts weren’t going to be around much longer so I better get in on a good one now. Lucy Lou hangs her giant fluffball head out the back window while we zip around. As one passerby so eloquently :-) put it, “That is a very large dog in a very small car!” It’s quite a site.

Yes, Shannon Rebecca is my full legal name. No, I wasn’t born with Rebecca as my last name. Yes, it’s weird that it’s two first names, and yes, it confuses people. I’ve had to learn to answer to Rebecca.

I laugh a lot.

My goal in life is to make this Emerson quote true as many times over as possible: “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”