I have blogged for many years before landing at WordPress in 2007 and I haven’t ever written an About Me page. I find it difficult to write about myself. I’m not a “self promoter” so there’s that. I’ve struggled with what I want to say and I’ve come close to actually sitting down and doing it for several years but it hasn’t happened until now, 2016!
So who am I? I’m Corina. I was born on Christmas Day (in 1955) so my mom gave me a Christmassy middle name: Joy. I’m a lot of things which include: a mom; a nana; a forever learner and former teacher; a writer and reader; a helper, forever volunteering; a blogger; a Tarot lover and collector of Tarot decks; an optimist; a friend; a daughter; a sister; a mother-in-law; a thinker.
Those are a lot of words to describe me but I can’t help but feel that they don’t really give you a view of who I am. I guess for that, you’d have to read some of my blog posts. If you do, you might learn that I love to read Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series. I love the Godfather trilogy. My all-time favorite book is To Kill A Mockingbird. I love Tex-Mex music, Latin jazz, and the Beatles! I love coffee and wine and more recently, I have enjoyed beer tastings and making my own flavored vodka!
You would also read about some health issues that I struggle with and you would read that I am fighting them as best I can. I’m not going to let anything get me down, if I can help it. I love to take hikes with my grandson. We go up in the forests around Portland, Oregon which is where we currently live. He’ll be 6 in 2016. It’s one way I have changed after a particularly difficult health challenge which had me in the operating room in April of 2015. Now I want to enjoy every moment possible and I often find myself overdoing…accepting too many things…because I don’t want to miss one single moment.
I guess I can add to this or you can come along and read my posts. Or better yet, both! I hope you’ll find somethings to think about and laugh about in the many posts here. You’ll probably find some things that might make you wipe away something moist, too. In any case, you will probably discover that I’m loyal. Stick with me and I’ll stick with you.
See ya in the blog world!
Writing About pages is surprisingly difficult, given that we spend more time with ourselves than anyone else. I like this summation of you.
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Thank you, Sabina. I was determined to write it in 2015 as it’s one of things I said I would do. I wrote it a couple of days ago and decided it would be a good first post for the new year. Glad you liked it.
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A lovely about me Corina!
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Thank you. I might end up adding About Me posts to an About page because I keep changing! I guess that’s a good thing!
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Lol!
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thanks for sharing all the background info Corina!
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Nice about page, Corina! Very little surprises me, but then I’ve been reading your blog for a while, so I guess if it, there’d be something wrong! I hope you have a great year in both the blog world and the real world!
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Thank you, Trent. I wish you the same!
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Nice post! Like Trent said above, I was not too surprised because you are so forthcoming in your post that I feel I know you. I did learn that we share the same favorite book!😊
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First of all happy new year filled with love health joy etc.
Reading his I have the feeling that I have already learnt quite a bit about you over 2015, thanks to your writing and especially to your coffee posts.
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Lovely to read about you. You are a wonderful lady. xx
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Thank you!
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A pleasure to meet you Corina and I’m pleased you decided to share some things about yourself. We have some common interests such as being a Mom and Grandma, writing and reading and blogging. Thank you for visiting and following my blog…I’ll definitely be back to read more of yours.
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