I am a career homemaker and veteran home school educator currently living in the small town of Lebanon, Oregon. My interests in history are rather new, and began with my discovery of teacups on eBay in about 2002.
Yep, teacups are to blame!
It was because of the sheer pleasure I found in collecting all those exquisite little teacups, that I began “feeling” my childhood daydreams of life as a wealthy Victorian. This lead to natural curiosity, which in turn spawned my surprise mid-life interest in exploring history.
What an amazing discovery it has been!
I marvel now at how up to that point I, like so many American graduates of our early childhood education system, hated history with a passion. BORING was what I had experienced and fully believed about history.
Well, thanks to teacups, come 2006 I realized I had a passion for living history. I further realized I had never considered living history as history per say, only as a frivolous form of “play.” Because of that I had always stuffed it away until someday. When I finally realized the existence of this dormant passion, I decided it was time to quit putting it off and find ways to bring it into my life.
I envisioned the LPH Community about that time, and started working towards it. It was in 2007 that I first decided to apply my new-found passion to the holiday I hated most: Thanksgiving.
We all know what happened from there! 
I share this part of my background as I want my readers to be aware that I am not a formally trained historian. Rather, I’m an avid enthusiast who is really just discovering history as a rich and fascinating hobby. Everything about the discovery makes me think, laugh, cry, and long to experience some of the simple things that folks before me experienced.
I find that history study based on curiosity and natural interest brings out the very best in me. I’m more like a child again, free and spontaneous. I dream more. I love more.
And I want others to come out and play with me.
Can you come out and play?
That is my mission, really. To make it easy for others to come out and play with history as a pastime hobby.
I look forward to the years ahead, to meeting many friends and participating in wonderful history discussions and living history events with people across the US.
If you need to contact me for any reason, I’m always tickled to hear from readers and friends. My contact information can be found on the LPH Contact page.
