My first love affair was with a 1931 Model A Ford whom I met in an abandoned chicken coop on a 180-acre ranch my family was caretaking the summer before my tenth birthday. Hupenaye and I weathered the storms of adolescence together with no possibility of parting ways in sight.

I jilted Hupenaye during college, leaving him for a torrid affair with my second love ---Okinoshima. The tiny islands of Oki, four hours by boat off the coast of Honshu in the Sea of Japan, seduced me with their mountains, their religious festivals, their gracious tenders of rice and netters of fish. Okinoshima eventually led me to Evergreen where, hopefully, I will be allowed to introduce my second love to those of you whom I come to know and work with in any capacity.

Yarding soil from test pits and systematically working with recovered data of archaeological excavations, hiking the trails of the Olympic peninsula, refinishing antique furniture, and sailing are among the activities which I find most challenging and most fulfilling.

Were I not at Evergreen today, I would be volunteering paramedic service in the mountains of Appalachia by jeep or by horseback, writing and researching for a non-profit newspaper founded for the improvement of the miners' plight there, and working on a photo essay, The Appalachian Way of God. If I am not at Evergreen tomorrow, you'll probably find me at the nearest freeway exit, thumb to the East.

Carie Cable has never suffered a hangover, jeopardized a committment,nor flipped a bird.