Whoop, Whoop!

Whoop, Whoop!

Here's my first admission: I'm a geek. In school, I was the bookish girl who kept her head down during class and barely talked with other students. A bit of a nerd, geek or whatever other slang word would fit at the time. A voracious reader, I spent most lunch hours during my eighth-grade year reading in the library. It was easier to go there than it was to endure the process of trying to find someone to sit with in the cafeteria.

I come from a long line of geeks. My mother, Jackie Gingrich, had graduated from Auburn University in...