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" OK, so we&amp;#x27;re kind of strangers right now. No fun! I loved Joanna&amp;#x27;s recent &amp;quot;more-about-me&amp;quot; post, and it occurred to me that if we&amp;#x27;re going to be having a daily conversation here about sometimes serious (OK, and often funny) topics, we should get to know each other a little more! I&amp;#x27;ll go first:I grew up near Seattle, where I live now, at the tail end of the grunge era, when everyone was a little obsessed with Kurt Cobain, the movie Singles, plaid and Doc Martens (remember when?). This is when I spent way too much time obsessing over an on-again-off-again relationship with the lead singer in a garage punk rock band, who you now can see on MTV. Things work out the way they&amp;#x27;re meant to. I would have made a terrible rocker chick. Before they meet me in person, a lot of people think I might be Asian, because of my last name: Jio. Surprise, I&amp;#x27;m not! I&amp;#x27;m married to a guy who&amp;#x27;s half Japanese. (In fact, he looks a wee bit like Ryan over at Single-ish!). In a second life, I&amp;#x27;d like to be Ina Garten (don&amp;#x27;t you just find her adorable?) or some other culinary goddess. I love to cook. (And, BTW, in an upcoming issue of Hallmark magazine, you&amp;#x27;ll see a dinner feature that was shot in my home. I created the recipes for the story, so give them a whirl! A quick shout-out to my Hallmark food editor, Kate Slate&amp;amp;#8212;check out her delish food blog here.) I&amp;#x27;m crazy about jazz, old and new. I&amp;#x27;m seriously jealous of my grandparents&amp;amp;#8212;they had such better music than we do. I&amp;#x27;m a mama. I have a 20-month-old son, Carson, and one on the way (another boy&amp;amp;#8212;totally outnumbered here)&amp;amp;#8212;due on Christmas Day. And nope, I&amp;#x27;m not going anywhere. I&amp;#x27;ll probably round up some terrific guest bloggers for a short time after the birth, but I&amp;#x27;ll be back ASAP, because I love this blog too much to leave you all for long. By the way, if you have a great suggestion for a boy name, send it my way. I&amp;#x27;m stumped. My health role models? My mom, who raised me, my sister and two bros (I&amp;#x27;m the oldest) to love vegetables and whole-wheat bread and all the other things that kids usually hate. I also think the author and renowned physician Christine Northrup is a wise voice in women&amp;#x27;s health. And as for celebs, I vote for Reese Witherspoon. She&amp;#x27;s fit, happy and seems to balance motherhood with careerhood so beautifully, even despite occasional bumps in the road. Oh, and I&amp;#x27;m 30, and I would like to stay right here for the rest of my life. So there, I&amp;#x27;ve told you everything and nothing. But maybe it will help you see the gal behind these posts a little more clearly. Now your turn! Let&amp;#x27;s get to know each other. XO, Sarah "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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