About Michelle
Michelle : Mom, wife, web developer/producer/editor, sports fan. cranky but happy. From Chapel Hill, living in Cary, NC.
Professional: I started working in new media/web production of sports websites for newspapers and tv stations in 1997 and have been lucky enough to continue in that field ever since. Having worked for various media groups, I went out on my own eventually and spend most of my time on a Carolina sports website, insidecarolina.com and working on some official conference and collegiate sites.
I have a degree in Political Science from University of North Carolina at Wilmington and in graduate school (slowly) at University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) in a graduate program about Technology in Journalism.
Interests: My family, UNC sports, politics, photography, adoption advocacy, education, pups, journalism, kids and technology, sports, history, blogging, reading
Favorite Music: Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Beatles, John Ford Coley & England Dan, Cat Stevens, Bee Gees, Paul Simon, The Smiths, George Harrison, Earth Wind & Fire, Fleetwood Mac, The Connells, Neil Young, CSNY, REM, Stevie Wonder, Norah Jones
Favorite TV Shows: 30 Rock, SNL, The Office, Colbert Report, Strangers with Candy, The Soup, Intervention, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Sex and the City.
Favorite Movies: Love Actually, Annie Hall, White Oleander, Terms of Endearment, Animal House, Steel Magnolias, American Beauty, Desk Set, Stone Reader, Fast Times at Ridgmont High, Star Wars, Garden State, Tales of the City, Six Degrees of Separation, Juno, Airplane, Meatballs, Almost Famous, Raising Arizona
Favorite Books: A Moveable Feast, The Beautiful and Damned, This side of Paradise, Where The Sidewalk Ends, The Big U, Shampoo Planet, Eleanor Rigby, Tales of the City, Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother, The Night Listener, Microserfs, Cannery Row, East of Eden, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, I Like You, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Prep, The man of my dreams. Anything by Armistead Maupin, David Sedaris, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Patricia Cornwel, Chuck Klostermanl or Douglas Coupland.
Favorite Quotations:
I’m not crazy, M’Lynn, I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 40 years! -Ouiser Boudreaux, Steel Magnolias
