Musings from Left Field

Shel­ley Cook

I hate writ­ing exclu­sively about myself, so this is tricky for me.

I live in San Anto­nio, but I’ve also lived in Fred­er­icks­burg and Rich­mond and Roanoke, Vir­ginia, Lit­tle­ton, Col­orado, and Ven­tura county, California.

I am mar­ried to the mil­i­tary part time and have 2 grey­hounds. I am inter­ested in the chang­ing face of com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Grey­hound adop­tion, Dis­abil­i­ties Advo­cacy, Devour­ing books, Home improve­ment, sav­ing Women’s col­l­leges, Bring­ing grass­roots nonprofit’s into the 21st cen­tury, and cul­tural effects of tech­nol­ogy. Among other things.

Odd Facts:

• My fam­ily pho­tos are dif­fer­ent than yours. I have a photo of my great grand­fa­ther hang­ing a man. (he was the sher­iff in Laramie, Wyoming in 1889.)
• My D.A.R.E. essay in 6th grade won the school con­test. I still have the medal.
• Nor­mal peo­ple scare me. I fight becom­ing one of them.
• I can’t keep my atten­tion span long enough to cook a full meal. Funny con­sid­er­ing what my mar­ried name ended up as: Cook.
• I am the incom­plete queen. No auto­graphs please.
• My favorite foods are any kind of dough and cot­tage cheese mixed with applesauce.
• I have an irra­tional fear of plas­tic bags on roads, and will swerve to miss run­ning over them.