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ABOUT ME

 

People often ask where I’m from and what I do. Both answers can be complicated. I was born in Mississippi but didn’t stay long. I was just three weeks old when my mother, with my two older brothers in tow, made the trip to Okinawa. My father was an Air Force C -130 flight engineer, which made me a military brat. I spent time in places as exotic as Okinawa and the Philippines as well as the less exotic southern US, including Little Rock, Arkansas and Fayetteville, North Carolina.

My father retired to his birthplace on Slaughter Road in rural western Kentucky, where I graduated from Marshall County High School and earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Murray State University. 

After college, I tested honey to be sure it was genuine at Coastal Science Laboratories in Austin. They called me the “honey fairy”. I tested for PCBs and pesticides at a lab in Virginia, and I worked at a small startup called Pharmavene in Maryland, while my husband Bobby Treat (a career Air Force officer) worked at the Pentagon. Pharmavene was later bought by Ireland-based Shire PLC. In 1999, I was recruited by David Garcia to join CEDRA (now WCTDDS) as a project director. My husband is a native born Texan from Snyder, TX, so we jumped at the chance to return to Austin. I worked as a Project Director for several years before moving into the IT department where I managed databases until I retired in 2014.

Now, I have time to indulge all of my serial hobbies. When something grabs my attention I am free to obsess to my heart’s content. I enjoy reading science fiction and fantasy and occasionally attend science fiction conventions, including Austin’s own ArmadilloCon.  I’ve traveled to three WorldCons (World Science Fiction Convention) in Baltimore, San Antonio, and San Jose. I also went to friend’s weddings in Jerusalem and Ireland, the more exotic the better, but I’m usually a homebody. I won’t travel for a mere vacation! 

I also enjoy photography and video editing. I took film classes a few years ago where I shot and edited two independent films that won top honors in our class. I learned that filmmaking is much harder than non-industry viewers ever realize. While I’m not ready to run off to Hollywood, I’m a bigger film and television geek than ever. 

I live in Round Rock with my husband, Bobby, of twenty-seven years, and four cats: Montana, Soñadora, Niña, and Niño. 

 

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