Sonya Fehér is a writer, mama, educator, and performer living in Austin, Texas. She currently serves as a leader for the South Austin Chapter of Attachment Parenting International, Contributing Editor for API Speaks, and she blogs  about parenting at mamaTRUE: parenting as practice. Fehér earned her MFA in creative writing / poetry from Texas State University and teaching certification in Secondary English from the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked as an educator for over two decades and an arts organizer for 15+ years. She has co-produced three National Poetry Slams and competed as a member of the Austin Poetry Slam Team. Fehér has performed and presented at various festivals, schools, and readings around the country. You can contact her at sonya (at) sonyafeher (dot) com.

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Or, for a more complete (if not clearer) picture, read on for 25 Random Things About Me:

1. I have been a vegetarian since birth because my parents were studying with a guru and believed that the animals’ souls got in the way of reaching the ethereal plane through meditation.
2. The only black eye I ever had was in middle school. My friend Tom tripped over his foot, fell backwards and hit my cheekbone with his head. He yelled at me for hurting his head. He is now an ER doc.
3. I once forgot I was at a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert when I got distracted by a game of whist.
4. On another quantum plane, I am a member of Stomp.
5. I had bones removed from my feet when I was a teenager and kept them in a jar of formaldehyde by my bed for most of high school.
6. When people sit or walk on my left side, I get horribly claustrophobic and greatly irritated.
7. I can not stand to have my toes touch. This means no squeezing my toes when giving me a foot massage and no tight shoes. Hence Dansko’s and other boxy footwear.
8. When I eat walnuts, I get bumps on my tongue just like a cats. I no longer eat walnuts.
9. Dogs make me feel guilty. They want more petting, more attention, more …. So, I’d rather not ever own one again. But my husband and I make up names for our imaginary dogs: Kbps (pronounced Kay-bips), Sherbert (yes, we know it’s really spelled sherbet but we don’t say it that way), Sailboats, and my husband keeps trying to get me to consent to an imaginary chihuahua named Odelay.
10. I hate the word jubilee.
11. My power tools are some of my most prized possessions.
12. I once caused a riot in Juarez, Mexico on Cinco de Mayo.
13. The accomplishment I am most proud of is completing ROPES facilitator training.
14. My celebrity crushes (since I was a pre-teen) include Tom Hanks, Alan Alda, and Eric Stolz.
15. I am a recovering adrenaline junkie.
16. I love buying people presents. Once for my husband’s birthday, I took him on a surprise skydiving trip.
17. My first concert was the Beach Boys at the Albuquerque State Fair.
18. I only like very scrambled eggs, so small and firm my husband says they no longer qualify as eggs.
19. The feel of newspapers, newsprint on my fingers, and my inability to ever fold a newspaper back correctly means I do not like touching newspapers, not even weeklies without that extra annoying and logistically difficult fold in the middle.
20. I once defeated two very large men in a cupcake eating contest (thanks to my coach, Rachel McKibbens).
21. We scheduled our wedding based on an astrological event chart and a waxing moon.
22. I almost always feel under-dressed.
23. We narrowed down our son’s name choices based on numerology.
24. My relationship with superglue is conflicted. I glue myself to myself. It is uncomfortable.
25. I was once a best man in a wedding wearing a mini-skirt, a Quiet Riot t-shirt, and a bandana tied around my thigh.