The Atayners

Nickname: Hugga

 

Job: Chief Pacesetter

 

Birthplace: The Way Life Should Be

 

Favorite piece of trash:  Any CD or Record that someone else doesn't want.  One person's trash, is another one's treasure.

 

When not working I:  Run, Hike, Bike, Ski, Go Outdoors.  I'm always listening to music!

 

Favorite toy: My Motorcycle

 

Guilty pleasure:  Beer (Gritty McDuff's)

 

Music: Pearl Jam, U2, Colin Hay, The Killers, Kings of Leon, My Morning Jacket, Harry Chapin, Johnny Cash, The Shins, Ray LaMontange, Snow Patrol, The Cold War Kids

 

Movies:  Good Will Hunting, An Inconvient Truth, Garden State, Brave Heart, Rocky

 

Books: The Catcher in the Rye, Born to Run, On the Beaten Path

 

Title of my life memoirs:  The Chronicles of a Treehugging, Steel Horse Riding Cowboy

 

Words to live by: “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” -Albert Einstein

Nickname:  Haven’t had one since college...and that one I’m not volunteering

 

Job: Jill of all trades for Atayne, fellow at the Aspen Institute

 

Birthplace: Land of the Cheese Heads

 

Favorite piece of trash: Anything sparkly that represents a celebration

 

When not working I: make lists, house hunt, plan a wedding, get outdoors, practice yoga & attempt to meditate, experiment cooking with new ingredients

 

Favorite toy: my Bianchi bike acquired via barter

 

Guilty pleasure: dark chocolate and paperback novels with no literary value

 

Music: anything with acoustic guitar (fan of Indigo Girls since age 16); listen to classical (Baroque) when I need to concentrate or write

 

Movies: romantic comedies, foreign flicks set in Asia, movies by director Mira Nair, The Bourne series. Ones that I can watch repeatedly include: True Lies, Top Gun, & Emma

 

Books: Can’t live without. Usually reading 2-3 at a time, mix of fiction and non-fiction.

 

Title of my life memoirs: Confessions of a Nomad

 

Words to live by: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

 

 

Nickname:  KDubbs

 

Job: Designer Extraordinaire. Create, edit, troubleshoot and resolve.

 

Birthplace:  South Shoorwa (Translation:  South Shore of Massachusetts)

 

Favorite Piece of Trash:  Grew up chasing yard sales with my mother. There are always treasures to be found. Furniture is a favorite find. I go for the pieces with a great story or character. As my mother would say “This one has nice bones”.

 

When not working I:  I am always creating something or being active. Teach dance and color guard… yes I am a band geek past, present and future. Run, cycle, swim, hike, surf (new at it), play with my fun loving dog, determined to learn downhill skiing or snowboarding in 2011. I have good insurance. And always laughing, but if you know me you know that means snorting!

 

Favorite Toy: This is tough for a tech geek/gear head.. all of my Apple products

 

Guilty Pleasure:  Red Wine, good microbrew beer, dark chocolate and peanut butter

 

Music:  I teach dance so my list could be long and span many decades and seem a bit odd… Adele, Prince, Michael Jackson, Kings of Leon, Script, John Mayer, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Amanda Marshall,  Ingrid Michaelson, Rascal Flats, Fuel, Florence and the Machine, Corinne Bailey Rae, Dave Matthews, Dixie Chicks, Ray LaMontange, U2, Bruce Springsteen….There is a lot more, but no need to ramble.

 

Movies:  Wizard of OZ, Good Will Hunting, Top Gun, Chocolate, Anger Management, Pulp Fiction, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Breakfast at Tiffany’s 1961,  Erin Brockovich

 

Books:  Excuses be gone!!, Motherless Daughters, Huckleberry Finn, A Raisin in the Sun.

 

Title of my life Memoirs:  Failure is just a hurdle, climb over it as success is just on the other side.

 

Words to live by:  "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." By Janice Joplin