September 6, 2007

StreetTalk

by Carol Rosen

What do the magnets on your refrigerator say about you? (Asked at the Almaden Branch Library)

“Not much because my refrigerator doesn’t have any magnets on it. I do tape my children’s artwork on the paneling, but it’s paneling and it’s not magnetic so it doesn’t hold magnets.”

Julia Alloggiamento, 38
Almaden
Attorney


“That we like to travel. We have Alaska, cactus, palm trees, pictures, kid’s pictures, calendars and shopping lists.”

Janice Schneider, 59
Almaden
Weight-loss counselor


“I do have a magnet, but it doesn’t say anything about me. We got it at Yosemite, which we love. It says we climbed Half Dome, but we didn’t really.”

Daisy So
Almaden
Homemaker


“The magnets say I’m a mom. They hold up pictures my two children made.”

Michelle Ogden, 34
Almaden
Homemaker/accountant


“They tell me where my family has traveled: Alaska, Panama, Egypt, Israel and Denver."

Sarah Weinstein, 96
Almaden
Retired


“The magnets are from places I’ve been and seen and they remind me of the good times I’ve had and the places I saw.”

Allison Hagin
Blossom Valley
Third grade teacher at Almaden Country School


"All of them are foreign. So they say that we travel a lot. I’m a former flight attendant and my husband works in high-tech and we travel. The magnets hold up lots of kid’s drawings.”

Cleona Walkin, 35
Almaden
Homemaker


"Most of mine are from conferences and trade shows. They say that we are world travelers who have lots of things that need to be held up on the refrigerator; kids pictures, report cards, coupons."

Scott Jordan, 49
Almaden
Nano technology