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!

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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. [] add photo from this year's Fair

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

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 * Retouched photo

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 * Spoiler warning

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 * Article out of date

...Best Comeback Athlete of the Year. .
 * Linking to an online reference. (Words in ref tags show up at end of article under "References").

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 * Need sources


 * Photo notes

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 * My Edit Counts