Jan Burke:  

I've been in Louisville, KY for 32 years now. Really condensed summary: Lived in Cherokee Park and worked 12 years in the recruiting industry and then married and had twin girls and went back to school while working at their private school as Librarian for 5 years. (It was not a quiet library.) Lost the impetus to get a teaching degree and finished a BS in English, Writing instead a few years ago then started graduate school at U of L to work on a Masters in English and writing. Got a grant to work on a historical fiction (novel) in progress that I'm still getting around to finishing so I can start on another one I've got in mind and just hope I can convince a publisher to buy! In the mean time I make a living recruiting engineers (again!) for the steel industry, working about 3 days a week. Now I'm going to cut and paste a bunch of stuff I already filled out for my Facebook profile: I love travelling, reading, writing fiction, flower gardening, making jewelry, cooking, eating new places for, uh, "recipe research" - yeah, that's it. Also, photography especially macroshots (superclose-ups) of flowers, bugs, funghi. Interests:Like to study all sorts of things: history, nature, Bible, latest technology. Love going to school and until recently I was research asst to Eng professor at UofL, mostly 19th century stuff. Also love drama and sometime I also write and perform in dramas occasionally at our church.Favorite Music:Folkmusic, Blue Grass, classical, worldmusic, oldies from the 50's-70's, some contemporary christian such as Mile 7, Jars of Clay especially Redemption Songs, Big Band. I like to ...Expand for more