Born: Some time before Mt. St. Helens blew up.
Home state: Oregon
Kids: Soon
Colleges: Mt. Hood Community College, Warner Pacific College, Mississippi State University, University of New Mexico
Places I've been to: At least 25 different states (including Ohio, Michigan, New York, Washington DC, New Mexico and Texas), Germany, Czechoslovakia, London, Canada (Victoria B.C.).
Interests: Pottery (I made my own dishes), good books (many different genres), Walt Whitman's poetry, taking long drives, geocaching, the beach/tidepools (especially the ones in Oregon), Geology, Marine Biology, baking, and beading.
Favorite Quote: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise
riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and
crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not
concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take
off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of
men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and
with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every
season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at
school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own
soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest
fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and
face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint
of your body. --Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.
If you have any other questions please feel free to email me at mssigman@ziggysclass.com. I will post most answers to this page so that everyone can see them.