Meet Samantha Striegel

Recovery Date: September 26, 2019.

Q: What is your favorite recovery activity?
A: Attending NA meetings and events.

Q: Who is your strongest advocate?
A: My family.

Q: What is your dream vacation?
A: Fiji! It is beautiful. My dad sponsored a girl from Fiji when I was a child, and I always looked forward to her letters. I would love to see where she was from.

Q: What is your favorite movie, TV show, or book?
A: Anything by Quentin Tarantino, and The Watchmen. I enjoy movies that make you think.

Q: What’s your favorite way to spend a rainy afternoon?
A: Playing inside with my kids.

Q: What’s something most people don’t know about you?
A: I am a crazy plant lady! I have 127 houseplants that live in a semi-hydroponic grow room in my basement.

Q: What’s one thing on your bucket list?
A: Taking my kids to the beach.

Q: Do you have a nickname?
A: Sammie. When someone calls me Samantha, I know I’m probably in trouble.

Q: What always makes you smile?
A: When my kids tell me they love me out of nowhere.

Q: What’s your favorite color?
A: Pink!

Q: What are you currently working on or learning?
A: Anger management. It has been my biggest struggle to work through in recovery.

Q: What’s your favorite season?
A: Fall. I love open-window season!