Amateur Linguist, Amateur Musician, Amateur Theologian...Professional Amateur

Welcome to my hub on the interwebs!

A little about my background: I was born in Miami, raised in the NYC metro area of northern New Jersey, and have lived just up the road from our nation's capital in Baltimore for almost two decades now. I enjoy spending quality time with my husband, Joel, and our two cute kitties. I don't remember learning how to read - I just know that I have always had a voracious appetite for the written (and spoken) word.

I have a lifelong love for learning, and pretty much married myself to language study and music performance from a very early age. I speak French as a second language and have studied many others, primarily in the Indo-European language family, such as German and the constructed language Esperanto. I play keyboard and woodwind instruments; I have been known to sing my heart out at home and in church.

I have always loved Nature, I have a complicated history with God, and a holistic view of the intersections of religion and science. I am a Uvangelist sharing Unitarian Universalism with all. A lay leader for many years, I served my UU congregation on many committees and on our Board of Trustees before becoming a paid Religious Professional. In 2019, I entered seminary and am working towards a Master of Divinity. In 2020 I gained status as an Aspirant to Unitarian Universalist Ministry.

I am an ENFP according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, with strong 'I' tendencies. After a decade working for symphony orchestras and breathing classical music, I have been working for progressive religious institutions in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area since 2012. I maintain hope that, despite my substantial (but improved!) commute, I can find the focused time I need to do more reading, writing, and meditating on life.

You can find me around the web mostly as UUXMNR, but also as ExPluribusUnum (EPU) and lingvamanto.