I love to read, and lately I've been actively making space for the leisure reading I ignored in all my years as a university scholar. My favorite novels, however, remain Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and The Iowa Baseball Confederacy by W.P. Kinsella. I am also a big fan of the horror genre in both literature and film and will nerd out to almost anything Mike Flanagan, Jordan Peele, or Shirley Jackson. 

I enjoy music in various keys and genres, though I have an aesthetic preference for flats over sharps, samba over salsa, Beethoven over Brahms. I am largely allergic to Franz Liszt, Bro-Country, and praise music, though even here I will make some exceptions. And I have an inordinate love for Christmas music! I play the piano (and a bit of organ) in my spare time and am (still) trying to conquer the last movement of Franz Liszt's (see?) piano transcription of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, but it's a long and verrrrry slow process. 

Finally, when time, money, and health permit, I also enjoy exploring various nooks and crannies of the globe with my partner, Dr. Daniel Schumacher, and our rainbow baby girl (now not so much a baby anymore!), Charlie Rae.