Rhonda Williams

• Name: Rhonda Williams
• Hometown: Nacogdoches, Texas
• Family: Husband - Jeffrey, one daughter
• Movie Star name (first pet + street you grew up on): Missy Redgate
• Pets: Cats - Devon, Tabitha, and Kizzy; Dogs - Sunni, Cloe, and Isabel
• Most embarrassing moment: Any situation that requires me to be someone or something other than myself - skits, role-playing, singing, dancing, etc.
• If you could be a celebrity for a day, who whould you be? Madeleine Albright
• When you were ten, what did you want to be? A historian - really - I went to elementary school in England and spent a lot of time in museums, libraries, book stores and antique stores.
• What's a present that you've wanted more than anything? A trip around the world
• Favorite music: Anything with rhythm and without hate.
• Favorite place in the world, and why: The Middle East - I worked for a company that exported goods to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for several years in my 20's, spent several months in Israel in 1983, and a month in Egypt on a Fulbright in 2005. I have good friends from other countries in the area, and I love the culture (old and ancient - food, clothes, music, crafts, history, custom).
• Favorite type of food: All types of ethnic food - Middle Eastern, followed closely by Italian and Mexican, although Chinese and Indian are also good...
• Coffee or Tea? Coffee
• Star Wars or Lord of the Rings? Star Wars
• Beach or Mountains: Mountains, or better yet, beaches near the mountains.
• Unusual item you found on Tides: Old photographs that make me want to know the story that goes with them.
• Unexpected item found on Tides: Virtual Field Trips