User:Estreya

Who Is This Estreya Person?

I'm Alicia Williams, mom to three wonderful daughters, ages 13, 11, and 6. We live in Minnesota, USA, where we've settled after years of travel with the United States Air Force. I'm a teacher's assistant in a Montessori House of Children (preschool/kindergarten) in the same building as my amazing girls' Montessori charter school. As an information junkie, I use Wikipedia nearly daily. When I can't find something, I try to write it or add to what I do find here if it's not fleshed out. I've been using the Internet since the early 1990s and haven't found a better uses of it than Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders (DP), and Facebook --my three favorite places in Cyberspace!

The name Estreya has been mine from the beginning of my time online (1993 on America Online, AOL). It comes from one of my favorite books: "Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber" by Ken Wilber. I like the name because I honor Treya's courageous battle against breast cancer every time I sign online. It is also a nice fit for me as I speak Spanish and "estrella" is star in Spanish. Always good to reach for the stars in life or in cyberspace. You might have seen me in Omni Magazine's forum on AOL where I hosted chats for several years in the mid-1990s.

I have a Master's Degree in Information Systems Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's Degree in Physiology with minors in Spanish and Biology from the University of Minnesota. My hobbies include knitting, crochet, scanning and formatting books for DP, crossword puzzles, reading, gardening, my pets and nature. And I guess I'm the last person (in the US at least) who doesn't do Suduko.  :)

Recent Tinkering

And my WP Baby: Books by Nora Roberts. I compiled this list a few years ago to keep track of my personal Nora collection. I added it to Wikipedia and have kept it up to date since then.

• Twig the Fairy article stub which became the Twig the Fairy article.
• White Peacock Butterfly

Articles I Contributed to in 2008

• Aster yellows (photo added).
• Blackstone, the Magic Detective radio series
• The Country of the Blind radio adaptations
• Death Takes a Holiday
• Re-adding my photo of Erythema multiforme to the article.
• Jerry of the Circus
• OTR performers
• Magic Island
• Strangers on a Train

Articles I Contributed to in 2007

• Balad
• Barbaro
• Beatrix Potter
• Bethany Hamilton
• Erythema multiforme
• LMNT
• LSA Anaconda
• John P. Milton
• New Girl in Town
• Premonition
• Ricin
• Scarlet fever
• The Sixth Sense
• Svein Nyhus

Some of the Articles I Contributed To in 2006

Abreu, César
"Animal Crackers in My Soup"
Cilice
Elizabeth Eckford
Fincastle competition
My favorite series of books: J.D. Robb's In Death series
Little Rock Nine
Lobotomy
McNaught, Judith
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
Roberts, Nora
Salem witch trials
Schaeffer, Rebecca
Servant of the Bones
Stratemeyer Syndicate

One of my favorite ways to explore Wikipedia is to work on Disambiguations. Wow! You sure find some cool stuff this way!

This user repairs links to disambiguation pages.

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My Userboxes

Here's me, all boxed up:	MomThis user is a mother and proud of it!	This user remembers using a rotary dial telephone.
This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of Minnesota.	BAThis user has a Bachelor of Arts degree.	MSThis user has a Master of Science degree.
This user is a participant in WikiProject Radio.	This user is interested in Unitarian Universalism.	enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
es-2Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.	LE-0This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalisation.	MacThis user contributes using a Macintosh computer.
…in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.	its & it'sThis user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.	’sThi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
This user likes to crochet.	This user enjoys photography.	This user enjoys scrapbooking.
This user is owned by one or more cats.	This user owns one or more dogs.	This user is pretty sure that she is an outlier compared to everybody else.

Articles I'd like to contribute to

Chaska Valley Family Theatre
Tomie dePaola
Fanny Jackson Coppin using the American Girls Short Story "High Hopes for Addy" as reference. [[1]] add photo from this year's Fair

My Photos

My daughter with Scarlet Fever.

Another daughter with Scarlet Fever.

My daughter with Erythema multiforme rash.

My daughters with Princess Märtha Louise of Norway.

Svein Nyhus and Princess Märtha Louise

Jan Brett at a 2003 book signing in St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA.

Phyllody on a purple coneflower

Wild White Peacock Butterfly (Anartia jatrophae) on Grand_Cayman

Twig the Fairy, 2003.

[[:File:Twig-Book-first-edition-2010.jpg|100px|thumb|left|Twig the Fairy's first book, 2010.]]

[[:File:Twig-Book-number-two-2011.jpg|100px|thumb|left|Twig the Fairy's second book, 2011.]]

My Sandbox

Here are the tags for all the stuff I keep forgetting the shortcuts to! (add open curly brace to each):

• Retouched photo

{RetouchedPicture|list changes made to image here}}

• Spoiler warning

{spoiler}} {endspoiler}}

• Article out of date

{update}}

• Linking to an online reference. (Words in ref tags show up at end of article under "References").

...Best Comeback Athlete of the Year..

• Need sources

{fact _check}}

• Photo notes

Photographer: Alicia Williams User:Estreya, {Cc-by-sa-2.5}} The ...

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