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I have been a lifelong learner before the term was created and have encouraged others in their own explorations and experiences as a librarian for many years.

My family is a life long learning family. My mother learned how to cook after getting married, learned how to wallpaper, upholster furniture, cane chair seats and refinish furniture. I learned how to bake, cook, wash clothes, can and sew in the 1950-70s. After getting sewing lessons from my sister as a present, my first project was to make an opera cloak - black with red lining. I made it during spring break in 1973, little knowing that my choice of 18th century outerwear, would be mistaken for a movie phenomena which opened a few years later.