Donna Crawford
Redondo Beach, California

 
Bio:

I was born in North Carolina and lived there until I was about 2 or so.  My father was in the military, so we moved every year or two.  We lived up and down the east coast, in Arkansas, Germany and Kansas, before he retired in 1980.  I attended Manhattan High School (in Kansas) and college and law school at the University of Kansas (Go Jayhawks!!).

I've lived in Alabama, Georgia, Texas and California since leaving my parents' home.  I currently live in California with my husband Kirk (even while we were on our RTW, we considered California as home). My family and friends are scattered all over the place, as you can imagine.

My husband and I are highly involved with our church, locally. I have lots of hobbies, including cooking, HAM radio, reading, travelling, bzflag, and sports/outdoor activities. Although I love to watch Jayhawk Basketball, I generally prefer to participate. Some of my favorites are beach volleyball, scuba diving, cycling, rowing, swimming, snow skiing, tramping, surfing, off-roading, etc.

My travels over the last few years have taken me to Costa Rica, Hawaii, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and most recently, on a 15-country, 1-year round-the-world trip.

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Recent Articles

Sunday, June 6

 

Blog Blog Blog

Ahhh...the fine art of blogging. I have finally joined the 21st century! Since I am starting a new (part-time) job tomorrow, I figured, at long last, it was time to whip my webpage into shape. In addition to spending about 4 days or so revamping all the pages, I have now installed a blogger to go along with it.

Tomorrow, I will be starting a part-time job at our church as a pastoral assistant. I've been helping out there for a good long while on a volunteer basis and have finally decided to take the plunge back into the workforce. I'm looking forward to having more interaction with others on a daily basis - that is what I miss most from my old job.

Kirk and I saw the new Harry Potter on Friday with some friends. You can read all about it in his blog. It was good, but I found it slightly disappointing. The books are excellent, of course, and each installment is longer than the previous one. So much happened in this book, I'm sure it was more difficult to make it into a movie. However, I didn't like the new Dumbledore - he doesn't have the charisma of the old actor. Also, while some of the new sets were cool, I felt that we lost consistency with the old movies. Out of 5 stars, I'd give it 3.


Donna in Austria
Click for larger image Austria, August 2003