She watches about 3 hours of TV a day on hernon-cable television. Her favorite reading material includes RogerZelazny, Petet Beagle, Megan Lindholm and Katherine Eliska Kimbrel science fiction by Larry Niven murder mysteries by PatriciaCornwell, Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels, Nevada Barr and DickFrancis, plus any other good historical non-fiction. Doug has dogs but Rudoesn't do well with dogs. She used tofeed a family of raccoons for a couple of years. Her favorite animals are cats, house cats andthe big ones you don't get to pet, horses and raccoons. Her socks rarely match andexpress her love of color. Her favorite colors are anything intense,especially red, purple and bright blues. She was thetype of student that sailed through school making straight A's whilehardly even studying. In school sheliked to study Drama,anthropology, dance, and Literature. She has been involved in many dramas including interactive dinnertheatres in Dallas, Oregon. She lives in the middleof 5 wooded acres where she also designs her clothes, sing(recentlyfor the Salem Light Opera Company, dance(modern and tap with a littleIrish hardshoe) and act. Before she invested her time inwriting, she would go backpacking with Doug but found less and lesstime to do so when trying to meet deadlines. She likes to lift weights, run, bike, skate in-line, ski,play basketball, tennis, racquetball, garden, playing guitar, scubadiving, and flying stunt kites. Her and her husbamd, Doug, livein Oregon with their only child, a silver mackerel tabby cat named Roberta. She has one brother and two sisters all younger thanshe. Ru Emerson was born on December 15th, 1944 inButte, Montana.

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