Name:
Shopping Golightly

Hometown:
Denver, Colorado

What is your occupation?
Mommy. Blogger/writer, The Thrifty Chicks and Mommy Golightly

What professional accomplishment are you most proud of?
Securing my first $10K donation for The Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

What academic accomplishment are you most proud of?
Winning first prize in the Illinois Department of Health AIDS Reporting contest on a co-authored feature with a recovered heroin addict.

What personal accomplishment are you most proud of?
Being honest, even when it’s really hard.

What is your favorite word?
Children.

What is your least favorite word?
Waste.

What would you choose as your “last meal”?
The saffron risotto my husband makes.

What’s your favorite guilty pleasure?
Giggling about things I shouldn’t with my girlfriends.

Describe your favorite pair of shoes.
Black Via Spigas with wide heels so I don’t wobble.

When do you feel happiest?
When my family sits around a warm campfire after a day of hiking and exploring the forest.

Name one book that changed your perception of the world.
Three Cups of Tea

If they made a movie of your life, which actor/actress would play you?
Johnny Depp in drag or Jodi Foster.

What are five things you’d like to do before you die?

See the Northern Lights.

Watch beavers working on their lodge and dams.

See wild moose.

Play with my grandchildren.

Wholly accept praise.

The world would be a better place if…
Humans had not invented waste.

What is your opinion of Oprah?
What? A woman dedicated to educating young girls in Africa? I love her. Though I do wish she’d host fewer celebrities. Unless it’s something philanthropic, I really don’t care what Tom Cruise is doing.

Do you dance?
Is there anyone who doesn’t?

What is one product that you think lives up to its claims?
Tooth paste, I don’t have any cavities.

What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever been?
The Adirondacks in Northern New York

What is the most interesting thing about you?
That’s for me to know and you to find out.

Do you ski?
Cross-country though it’s been awhile.

Describe yourself in five words.
I laugh at myself often.