Anne's Page

Anne with Sheila (1977-97)

Hi! I'm Anne. Thanks for visiting our home page. I was born long ago, in a galaxy far, far away... well, actually, in New Orleans, LA. I moved to Wisconsin when I was 23 and have lived most of the time since then in Madison. I met Lee in January 1985 and we got married in September 1986. While Lee and I are happily married, we are NOT joined at the hip, so each of us has interests not shared (much) by the other. Here are some links to my special interests:

Adoption

• Abrazo Adoption Associates in San Antonio, TX, the agency that enabled our daughter, Maya, to find us in 1996.
• Adoption Awareness Month is November. But visit this site any time of year to learn more about adoption.
• Raising Adopted Children is a comprehensive website by the publisher of "Adopted Child" newsletter.
• Adoption: a gathering -- an online project of the Public Broadcasting Service
• The Adoption Web Ring -- a public service webring of over 400 web pages, dedicated to the best interests of the adoption triad -- birthparents, adoptive parents and (of course) adoptees.

Music

• Monte Montgomery -- my favorite musician, the real deal, and the greatest singer/songwriter/guitarist you've probably never heard of
• Bruce Springsteen -- still rockin', still The Boss
• The Beatles -- yeah yeah yeah, my first loves

Baseball

• Milwaukee Brewers -- my team, in spite of myself and themselves. Even the move to their new stadium, Miller Park didn't perk up the team this year. In the immortal words of Cubs fans, "There's always next year."
• The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum -- The shrine of baseball, in Cooperstown, NY. Congratulations to the 2001 inductees: Bill Mazeroski, Kirby Puckett, Hilton Smith and Dave Winfield.
• The Science of Baseball -- a wonderful website presented by The Exploratium, San Francisco. I highly recommend it.
  
• StrikeThree.Com - a newer site with lots of great baseball gossip, speculation etc. that baseball fanatics thrive on.

Humor and commentary

• The Onion
• Modern Humorist
• Slate magazine
• Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index

Busting Internet hoaxes and urban legends

• About.com Best Hoax-busting resources
• Trend Micro hoax encyclopedia - includes a drop-down alphabetical list of the names of alleged viruses
• Virus Bulletin virus hoax listings
• F-Secure Computer Virus Info Center
• Hoaxbusters - who ya gonna call?? ... how to recognize an Internet hoax or chain letter, among other useful information
• Urban Legends Reference pages

Unitarian Universalism

• Unitarian Universalist Association -- everything you might want to know about Unitarians and/or Universalists
• Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society -- the Madison, Wisconsin, UU church I have belonged to since 1982. I currently serve on the Religious Education Committee as liaison to UU religious education activities on the Internet.

Mythology

• Joseph Campbell Foundation
• Encyclopedia Mythica -- features a wide range of cultures.

Environmental issues

• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
  • EPA's AIRNOW air quality forecasts for metropolitan areas around the United States
• Wisconsin Air Management Program -- where I've worked since February 1991. This is the web page I maintain at work.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air & Radiation -- everything you could want to know about air pollution in the United States

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