My name is Alyssa and this is my personal blog. I started writing Mandrin Duck several years ago (btw, yes I know it’s misspelled and there is a story behind that but here is not the place) and as most things in life do, this blog has morphed and changed. I like to think it reflects personal change and growth…
I am someone with a variety of interests and am always involved in more endeavors than I care to admit but I’ve created mandrinduck.com as a place to “come home to” if you will and here you’ll find my thoughtful and not-so-thoughtful ramblings on anything and everything that strikes my fancy.
Biography:
- Born in the beautiful month of September– fall happens to be my favorite season
- Oldest of five, homeschooled and minimally musically talented
- Spent twelve years practicing classical ballet
- Graduated from Whitworth University (BA in English) and Portland State University (MA in English Lit.)
- Military brat and proud of it. Raised all over the country but I call the Pacific Northwest home. After all, I was born in Bellevue WA
- Currently I’m co-founder of an information management firm
- Married to a strong, passionate, sweet man
I:
- Like to bike, hike, camp, swim, free climb
- Listen to music from a variety of genres, everything from Michael Buble to Embrace to Mozart to Eminem
- Love to travel and hope to do so much more of it in the years to come
- Enjoy scrapbooking, cooking, watching movies, taking pictures and I dabble in crafty sorts of things over here
- Drink more coffee than I really should and most of it comes from Sterling Coffee Roasters
- Read voraciously, after all I’m an English major. My particular interests are rural fiction, medieval literature and all things Jane Austen
- Don’t care much for grammar, punctuation or spelling. Weird, right? what with that whole English major thing
- Love God
- Live life passionately, fully and without looking back (often)
