I've been here a little over two months. I grew up in Vermont. My family sang all the time--folk to oratorio--and had great singing parties. And so, "I cannot keep from singing." I have a degree in French, know an irregular verb or two and collect chansons folkoriques. I am a "recovering soprano". By day, I "office work" in the nation's capital; by night I take notes for a book-in-progress about ballad collector, Helen Hartness Flanders.

That's all the mud that's fit to print, from Nancy-Jean