Things you may not know

I’m afraid of bees and monkeys…terrified…not apes or lower primates, just monkeys.
I love pirates...and boats…especially pirate ships.
I have two identifying marks: a birthmark on my right index finger that my grandmother tried for 3 hours to scrub off when my parents brought me home from the hospital, and a tattoo on the inside of my right ankle – killer whale, from my environmentalist days. Someday I will have another tatoo.
I started going to basketball games when I was 3 years old, camps soon after and played competitively until grade 10 when I blew out my knee. I then coached and/or managed various teams for the following 15 years.
For years I had an irrational phobia of large yellow vehicles. I am still working it out.
I was once somewhat of an expert on the aquatic worms: Polydora cornuta and Boccardia proboscidia.