barbfacts

fast facts:

I didn't talk until I was three years old. My first word was "Ball!" (Was I meant to be a baseball umpire?)

My family moved from Los Angeles to Orange County when I was 7. When we drove up to the new house, I burst into tears--I thought we were moving to Disneyland!

I wrote lots of stories and poems as a kid because they were a cheap and easy gift for any occasion. I earned 50 cents for my first published poem. Click to read it.

I drank the blood of a fresh-killed cobra on my 18th birthday.

I became a vegetarian soon after.

My high school geometry teacher, Mr. Orris, threw a blackboard eraser at me more than once to get me to stop talking in class.

I consider myself a "skate-at-home" mom. What else are hardwood floors for?

I have eaten yak cheese pizza (but I prefer mozzarella.)

I created the Mighty Mama Skate-O-Rama partly because I was tired of being the only mom skateboarding at the skatepark every Mother's Day.

I have treked through leech-infested jungles, scuba dived with sharks, and skateboarded up the sides of (dry) swimming pools. But nothing scares me as much as waking up and finding that I'm out of coffee.