Like Dana Burrell, I was born in Rabun County. My father’s family names include Singleton, Dillard, Ritchie and Green, and my mother’s family (from Tusquittee, NC) includes Moore, Chambers, Ledford and Slagle. I participated in the Foxfire Program at Rabun County and graduated High School in 80, Young Harris College in 82 and received degrees from the University of Georgia in 85 and again in 1990. I became fluent in Spanish in the early 90’s, was fortunate to host jobs that took me around the world. I married in 2012 and across those years worked at several universities. I was raised Methodist, became Catholic and occasionally attend Mass in Clayton. I have two children, a grown son in Harper’s Ferry and an eleven year old daughter at Rabun County Elementary, and I live in the log home of an ancestor from the late 1800’s.