Meet the Staff
About Patrick
As kid growing up in Omaha Nebraska, Patrick spent most of his time outside. He was talkative,despite his speech impediment (the R and SH sounds were really tricky).
He loved dancing so much his mom had to buy him a special dancing table to stop him from busting a groove all over her living room furniture!
Patrick loved reading, but was really slow to learn how. Figuring out how all the letters came to make a word was challenging. His spelling was AWFUL. To be honest, it still is pretty rough.
Patrick was polite. He loved to argue, and always had to have the last word.
About Melissa
Melissa grew up surrounded by a huge Irish Catholic family with an outrageous sense of humor and a love for storytelling.
When she was a little girl, she thought a lot and talked a lot. And, when she wasn’t doing those things, she was reading. She learned by reading, listening, and reasoning. Melissa was always heavily influenced by books and stories.
If you could hop in a time machine and ask little Melissa what she wanted to be when she grew up, she would’ve told you, “I’m either gonna go work in Calcutta, or get a convertible and solve cases like Nancy Drew.”
(But that would only happen if you traveled to interview her shortly after her eighth birthday, when her gram gave her a Mother Teresa comic book. See what I mean about being heavily influenced by what she was reading?)
About Queenie
Books scattered across the floor with three by five cards, and special pens paint a perfect picture of Ms.Queenie. She grew up in a 21st century Brady Bunch home in San Diego, California. With five kids running around the house you can imagine the amount of pranks, laughter, dancing, and sibling-produced talent shows that were happening in her home.
Her report cards always said the same thing, “She’s a great student, she just talks a lot.” In the sixth grade she nabbed the role of Mrs. Oliver, originally slated for a boy, for the play Oliver Brown. In college she sat down with the President, to advocate for maintenance upgrades for the multicultural dorms.
About Megan
Megan avoided sports like it was the plague. She was frequently told to put down her book and go outside (in college, she would bring books to bars).
Luckily the phys ed coach also taught social studies. She would protest one current event or another as an excuse to not participate in class, and he respected her “right to demonstrate.”
Megan is a recovering perfectionist. Symptoms were exhibited as early as age 3. The pre-school teacher would spend a week teaching a song. Fridays it was performed for the parents. Megan would silently watch from the edge of the rug, memorizing all week long, but not saying a word. She refused practice out loud until the final show, and would sing a song once at the performance, perfectly and with no public evidence of stumbling.
First procrastination episode: age 6, a report on the presidents. She had two weeks to do it and began it at 6 pm the night before it was due.
