{"id":1037,"date":"2006-12-18T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/5-things-you-might-not-know-or-care-about-me\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:57","slug":"5-things-you-might-not-know-or-care-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/5-things-you-might-not-know-or-care-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things You Might Not Know (or Care) About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks(?) to Dave<\/a> (via Nancy White<\/a> and so on) for the kick to create a blog post … this time with a theme! Here the five (or so) things people might not know about me:<\/p>\n

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  1. I have a bunch of hometowns: I grew up in itty<\/span> bitty Lodi<\/span>, WI <\/a>and spent every summer with my friends and cousins at my favorite place in the world … Fish Lake<\/a>. I now hop around among my adopted hometowns of Chicago<\/a>, New York \/ Hoboken<\/a> and Gouldsboro<\/a><\/span> and get back to my original hometown of Lodi<\/span> (to visit mom) as often as possible. [Update: Oooh! I forgot my very first hometown – I was the bi-product of a fun filled (apparently) vacation in New Orleans<\/a> and my Grandma called me Dixie the entire time my then 40 year old mom was pregnant – too much information?]<\/em> <\/li>\n
  2. I had (but lost) many talents: In high school, I played the saxophone in the band, appeared in a handful of musicals, became the first girl on the boys golf team (we didn't have a girl's team), and was the captain of the volleyball team.<\/li>\n
  3. I had (but gave up) a great career: After 16 years as an insurance underwriter, I gave up the bright lights and glamour to pursue my edtech<\/span> geek passions.<\/li>\n
  4. I want permanent "student" status: My goal has always been to have a current student ID card in my wallet. I have been largely successful in achieving this goal with student ID cards from University of Wisconsin-Madison (BBA<\/span> in Finance '85 – '89), University of Illinois at Chicago (MBA '94 – '96), New York University (Instructional Design courses '05) and Indiana University (MS in Instructional Systems Technology '06+). Now, with this whole informal learning path I'm on, I see that the ID card isn't mandatory in order to achieve "student" status. <\/li>\n
  5. Go Badgers!<\/a> 'Nuf<\/span> said.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now, to Joanne<\/a>, Doug<\/a>, TravelinEdMan<\/a><\/span>, Chris<\/a> and Jane<\/a> – tag, you are it! Please share with the world the 5 things people might not know about you!
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    technorati tags:5 Things<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Thanks(?) to Dave (via Nancy White and so on) for the kick to create a blog post … this time with a theme! Here the five (or so) things people might not know about me: I have a bunch of hometowns: I grew up in itty bitty Lodi, WI and spent every summer with my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-fun-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}