About Deirdre

I'm curious about how things work, and I've spent most of my life following that curiosity wherever it leads: into proposals, into my own family's history, into a sketchbook, into a garden bed I probably planted too close together again this year.

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By day, I solve the puzzle of what an evaluator actually needs and build a proposal that answers it. Outside of that, I'm writing a multi-generational family saga rooted in my own genealogy, working through colored pencils and whatever art supply currently has my attention, and slowly relearning that health is a lot more than diet and exercise. All of it ends up on this site in one form or another.

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Off the page, I've got two rescue dogs who run the house more than I do, a bird feeder I refill more often than is probably necessary, and a garden that's more ambition than order most summers. I cook, mostly because I like the process as much as the result. I read constantly and always have something going.

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I support a few causes that matter to me: Friends of Parkville Animal Shelter, because rescue animals deserve people who show up for them; Unbound, for its work against global poverty; and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, for research toward a disease that touches more families than people realize.

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If any of this sounds like you, or like something you're curious about too, look around. You'll find links to my writing below, and to the Blog here.