Welcome to The Rotary Club of Lenexa!

I’m an avid reader, averaging over 20 books a year, which is down significantly from what I used to read annually before law school broke me. I have been impacted in innumerable ways by many of the books I’ve read, so it is difficult for me to narrow it down to a manageable list. The most recent book that I read which I found to be quite impactful was The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Change the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement, by Sharon McMahon. As the name implies, it highlights the impact individuals can have and is so well written, inspiring and uplifting. Highly recommend!

I went to a small high school in southeast Kansas and had only 31 people in my graduating class. That’s a long-winded way of saying I was involved in everything from Future Farmers of America, Future Homemakers of America, volleyball, basketball, 4H, band, pep club…you name it.  In college, I was very involved in my sorority – Sigma Sigma Sigma, the Greek and Panhellenic Councils, Marketing Club, Freshman Orientation Leaders and Student Government

I don’t play a lot of board games

I’ve only ever left in the middle of one movie – Bright Lights, Big City. I went to see it in 1988 with my now-husband, Keith, and we both just hated it from the beginning – I honestly don’t remember with any specificity what we hated about it, but we got up and walked out about halfway through, which I have never done before or since.

Currently, we have 1 year old chocolate lab named Sadie. She is our third chocolate lab – Tanner and Barley were #1 and #2 – and our first female and we find her to be much judgier than her brothers

My late mother’s wedding ring. We were a farm family and the gold bands on the wedding ring set she got when she and my father were married in 1949 wore completely through after years of hard, manual farm work. In the 60’s, she took the diamonds from that wedding set and designed a one-of-a-kind wide, sturdy gold band with the diamonds in a silver chevron setting on the top. It is stunningly beautiful, completely unique and when I wear it, which I typically only do for special occasions, I can feel her strength and love coming through it