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1. Most of my family arrived in North America before the United States existed. I suspect that they were all indentured servants.
2. I was not born in Texas. And I am not Polish. Not even a little.
3. The easiest language I ever learned was Japanese. I regret losing fluency.
4. When I met the translator George Henson in Havana, he told me that his impression of me was that I don't suffer fools gladly and that I use a lot of profanity. He was correct.
5. I think David Wojnarowicz was one of the greatest American writers.
6. As a child growing up on a farm in rural Texas, we had all kinds of animals: cattle, dogs, horses, mules, goats, pigs, chickens, etc, but as an adult I've only had cats.
7. I've met at least one person who should've been tried in The Hague for crimes against humanity.
8. Recently I diagnosed myself with an overactive vagus nerve.
9. It doesn't matter how much information you provide, I will always have a follow-up question.
10. I was a classically trained musician, but then I stopped playing altogether when I went back to graduate school.
11. My extreme interest in other people is constantly at battle with my extreme introversion.
12. I currently reside in the Blackland Prairie along the White Rock Escarpment on the ancestral lands of the Caddo, Wichita, and Tawakoni peoples, within the watershed of the Arkikosa. But I'm ready to move.
13. The funniest joke I ever made: a group of corgis is called a corgy.
14. Two of the most powerful mantras I know: I breathe in the universe, the universe breathes in me; and every distraction—a chance to return.
15. I'm an excellent tour guide, and an even better mixologist.
16. I earnestly believe that life is too short to skimp on cinnamon, vanilla, or garlic.
17. Though I don't consider myself much of a poetry person, there are currently random poems I'm working on scattered throughout my home.

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