...care for animals ... fly kites ... cultivate a garden ... help build wings for aircraft ... serve the country ... sail a ship ... program computers ... write a thesis ... teach the young ... help birth a child ... build a house ... convert information to knowledge ... swim 1K yards 4x a week ... edit a professional journal ... help raise a son ... write books ... single-hand a sailboat ... create music ... help assemble a library ... build websites ... bake bread ... seek humility

Ethnicity (DNA analysis by http://dna.ancestry.com):

Great Britain 65%; Ireland/Scotland/Wales 33%; Sweden 2%; Neanderthal 0%

Countries visited or lived in: Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Japan, Kuwait, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Tahiti, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, USA, Vietnam

Background photo by Chris Hepburn used here under license from iStock.com.

Silhouette of a girl with her AT-AT available from www.etsy.com.