User:Estreya

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[edit] Who Is This Estreya Person?

I'm mom to three wonderful daughters, ages 10, 8, and 4. We live in Minnesota, USA, where we've settled after years of travel with the United States Air Force. I'm a teacher's assistant in a Montessori House of Children (preschool/kindergarten) in the same building as my amazing girls' Montessori charter school. As an information junkie, I use Wikipedia nearly daily. When I can't find something, I try to write it or add to what I do find here if it's not fleshed out. I've been using the Internet since the early 1990s and haven't found a better use of it than Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders (DP)--my two favorite places in Cyberspace!

The name Estreya has been mine from the beginning of my time online (1993 on America Online, AOL). It comes from one of my favorite books: "Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber" by Ken Wilber. I like the name because I honor Treya's courageous battle against breast cancer every time I sign online. It is also a nice fit for me as I speak Spanish and "estrella" is star in Spanish. Always good to reach for the stars in life or in cyberspace. You might have seen me in Omni Magazine's forum on AOL where I hosted chats for several years in the mid-1990s.

I have a Master's Degree in Information Systems Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's Degree in Physiology with minors in Spanish and Biology from the University of Minnesota. My hobbies include knitting, crochet, scanning and formatting books for DP, crossword puzzles, reading, gardening, my pets and nature. And I guess I'm the last person (in the US at least) who doesn't do Suduko.  :)

[edit] Recent Tinkering

And my WP Baby: Books by Nora Roberts. I compiled this list a few years ago to keep track of my personal Nora collection. I added it to Wikipedia and have kept it up to date since then.

[edit] Articles I Contributed to in 2007

[edit] Some of the Articles I Contributed To in 2006

Abreu, César
"Animal Crackers in My Soup"
Cilice
Elizabeth Eckford
Fincastle competition
My favorite series of books: J.D. Robb's In Death series
Little Rock Nine
Lobotomy
McNaught, Judith
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
Roberts, Nora
Salem witch trials
Schaeffer, Rebecca
Servant of the Bones
Stratemeyer Syndicate

One of my favorite ways to explore Wikipedia is to work on Disambiguations. Wow! You sure find some cool stuff this way!

This editor repairs links to disambi­guation pages - you can help!



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[edit] My Userboxes


Here's me, all boxed up:
mom This user is a mother.
This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.
This user lives in or hails from the state of Minnesota.
BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree.
MS This user has a Master of Science degree.
This user is a member of WikiProject Radio.
This user is interested in Unitarian Universalism.
en This user is a native speaker of English.
es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.
LE-0 This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalisation.
Mac This user is contributing using a Macintosh computer.
…in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.
its & it’s This user understands the difference between its and it’s. So should you.
’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
' This user likes to crochet.
This user enjoys photography.
This user enjoys scrapbooking.
This user is owned by one or more cats.
This user owns one or more dogs.
This user is pretty sure that she is an outlier compared to everybody else.

[edit] Articles I'd like to contribute to

Chaska Valley Family Theatre
Tomie dePaola
Fanny Jackson Coppin using the American Girls Short Story "High Hopes for Addy" as reference. [[1]] add photo from this year's Fair

[edit] My Photos

My daughter with Scarlet Fever.
My daughter with Scarlet Fever.
Another daughter with Scarlet Fever.
Another daughter with Scarlet Fever.
My daughter with Erythema multiforme rash.
My daughter with Erythema multiforme rash.
My daughters with Princess Märtha Louise of Norway.
My daughters with Princess Märtha Louise of Norway.
Svein Nyhus and Princess Märtha Louise
Svein Nyhus and Princess Märtha Louise
Jan Brett at a 2003 book signing in St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA.
Jan Brett at a 2003 book signing in St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA.
MN State Fair butter sculpting
MN State Fair butter sculpting

[edit] My Sandbox

Here are the tags for all the stuff I keep forgetting the shortcuts to! (add open curly brace to each):

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  • Spoiler warning

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  • Article out of date

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  • Linking to an online reference. (Words in ref tags show up at end of article under "References").

...Best Comeback Athlete of the Year.[1].

  • Need sources

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  • Photo notes

Photographer: Alicia Williams User:Estreya, {Cc-by-sa-2.5}} The ...