Jade Miller, Neighbor

<b>My name is Jade Miller.  I am 12 years old, in 7th grade and I live in West Des Moines, IA. I am a blogger, an avid reader, and I play the piano and flute. I am not sure whether to be an architect or a marine biologist, but I guess there&#39;s plenty of time to figure that out. I have been identified as gifted and talented in my school district. I have big dreams and am working to achieve them.</b><b><br> </b>

<b>I will be a published author some time around June 2012. My book is based on the true story of a girl named Sybil in the American Revolution. Her father was a colonel in the militia, so when the British landed in the nearby town of Danbury, someone had to summon the militia. Sybil took up the call and risked her life that night.</b>

<b>I will be linking some of my blog posts to Patch, but if you want to read all of my adventures, check out:</b>

<b>www.mightygirliowa.blogspot.com</b>

<b>I want to use my blog, my life, and my book to inspire young people to believe they can do great things. My motto is &#34;Strive for the Stars&#34; which sums up my blog goal. I hope that by inspiring them, they can see my awesome, loving, caring, cool, awesome, awesome, awesome God in the same way that I do.</b>

<strong>I have been 1,000 feet into the earth in the Mollie Kathleen Gortner (She&#39;s an Iowan. Yay!) gold mine in Colorado. I have flown a two seater plane, supervised, of course, and swam with the dolphins. I have snorkeled several times, once in Asia where I attended a private school for 5 months. I saw tarsiers and the almost extinct Philippine Monkey-Eating Eagle. I also used to ride horses. I fell off six times!</strong>