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Carol McDaniel

I was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, where the school and the teachers are the best. I would be just like a regular person except when I was a teenager, both of my parents died, after painful illnesses, of natural causes. Even before my mother became a cancer patient my grandmother was the nurturing figure in my life. She is a woman that had a hard life. When I sat at her side while she sewed our clothes, drapes and quilts I saw that it was a good thing. I did manage to go to college for three years before marrying my darling soldier Ted. We moved to Ft. Lewis, Washington before becoming civilians. Ted's career path moved us all over - I did my Baccaluareate degree at Southern Oregon College and my Masters at California State University in Long Beach, teaching 27 years along the way. We have two wonderful children and four glorious grandchildren.

Currently I am a docent at the Laguna Beach Art Museum. I belong to the Flying Geese Quilt Guild and the South Bay Quilt Guild, where I am a member of the board, as well as to two friendship groups. I volunteer for the Pacific Symphony Orchestra doing presentations for the musical mornings, teacher workshops and graphics for the Class Action Program in the Orange County Schools. I also belong to Carole Cooney's Book Club but the truth is... all I really do is sew!