About Me

OK, a lot of website/ blog owners have a little bit of personal information about them somewhere on their sites. This is mine. I know. You’re thinking “she’s much too beautiful to be true”.  I get that a lot. But I am also a mature, compassionate, dedicated tree-hugger and do what I can for the unfortunate slugs of society, like the homeless who live under our freeway overpasses. I bake oatmeal cookies and knit warm afghans and deliver these things to them.

Lorraine O’Connor
Born Dec. 29, 1930

Two really swell daughters. Five grandchildren. MizKitty has one daughter, Jennifer, 32, she’s Grandma’s li’l peach. Kitty is a Website Designer extraordinaire.

And the other daughter is Kelly, who has four kidlets and lives in Florida.  There’s Jessica, Ben, Joe and Mike. Kelly is a teacher, she loves kindergartner size rugrats. I spent a day in her classroom once.  Once was more than enough. Being stuck in a room full of five-year-olds every day would be my idea of Hell.

“I don’t belong to any organized political party, I’m a Democrat” (Will Rogers)

• Member of Women in the Air Force (WAF), U.S. Air Force. From late 1949 to 6 mos. pregnant 1954.
• Divorced in 1980, Had a really swell career with the CIA. Retired in 1993.
• Volunteered a couple days a week at our great big hospital and big beautiful U.S. Humane Society shelter in Milwaukee. Like animals better than people sometimes.
• My cat, Rambo,  R.I.P — A real He-Man Tabby Guy.
• May 2008 — Snickers moved in.  Snickers is a pretty girlie-girl and carries about 99% ‘Maine Coon’ genes.  She is (in her own mind)  a Princess.
• My shiny new DSL–TV, broadband, DVR, 626 or so channels, Video on Demand, and Stuff I will probably never understand how to use…..
• Milwaukee’s Humane Society
• Singers — Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Il Divo, Dido, Sarah McLaughlin  and  many more ~~~Andre Rieu & Strauss Symphony Orchestra
• My granddogs, Lucy and Rosie– & my grandcats, Ruby & Kingston,  who, much to their surprise about a year ago, got a big lanky loving sister named “Doris” [Dorie] — a Greyhound rescued and adopted by Jennie & Brian from yet another defunct race track  —- Slowly but surely these gambling dog race venues are rapidly becoming extinct in the U.S.   Hallelujah.  Another victory in the ending of all exploitation of our domestic pets!!
• “All My Children” soap opera  [I've been watching this show faithfully since 1980.  Oy.  Maybe I should "get a life", eh?]
• Authors Robin Cook, Michael Palmer, Tess Gerritsen, Peter Clement, James Patterson, John Grisham,  Michael Crichton,  Tom Clancy, Patricia Cornwell, James Grippando, Lisa Scottoline, Janet Evanovich,  Harlan Coben,  Diane Mott-Davidson, Lilian Jackson-Braun — and so on and so on.
• My  NYTimes Crossword puzzles. I am so goldarn good I work the Sunday puzzles in ink.

Pro-choice, animal welfare activist, environmental kook, fanatic feminist. Just an all-around good kid.

(like to see that lovely photo collage designed by my talented daughter again? click here)