interesting people into your life and
interesting animals too.
how he stayed on his back for so long
while he did that chapel.
Q: What do you do to relax?
A: Fishing. I like to fish and play with
my animals.
Q: If someone asked you for your best
piece of advice, what would you say?
A: Be true to yourself. Don’t try to be
someone you’re not.
Q: What makes you really sad?
A: Cruelty to people or animals.
Q: What scares you?
A: Snakes.
Q: If you could visit any place in the
world, where would you go?
A: America
Q. What’s your favorite hobby?
A: Fishing.
Q: Who in your life has influenced
you the most? How?
A: My dad. He was a true gentleman.
Q: Who is the one person from history you’d like to meet?
A: Michelangelo. I’d like to find out
Q: What is the one thing that makes
you happy?
A: Good food.
Q: What would you most like to be
remembered for?
A: Kindness.
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Lori Ann Perz
Co-Owner & Operator of A
Step Back’n Time Antiques,
Auctions & Estate Sales Services.
A Licensed Phlebotomist
JANUARY 2016
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
Q: What do you do?
A: I was in the medical business
before coming to Texas. I am a Medical Transcriptionist, Phlebotomist,
M.A., Operating Room Tech, Pain
Management Tech, GI Tech. Now I
am co-owner and operator of A Step
Back’n Time Antiques, Auctions &
Estate Sales Services.
Q: What is your favorite book?
A: Same Kind of Different as Me, by
Ron Hall. This book changed the
person I was. It has made me appreciate what I have in life as others
who are not so fortunate. We are
so fortunate to be doing Ron Hall’s
estate in the near future. The movie
about the book will be coming
out April 26, 2016.
Q: Are you married? How did you
meet your spouse?
A: Yes. I met him at a Halloween
party. I was a green M&M and he
was a Cowboy. It was love at first
“bite”.
Q: How did you get into your field?
A: We went to an auction and got
hooked. Then we started buying storage units, before it was cool. We sold
the contents out of our garage. Once
we moved to Texas, we decided
to branch out and start our own
10
antiques store.
Q: If someone asked you to give
them your best piece of advice, what
would you say?
A: I would tell them not to sweat the
small stuff, save it for the big stuff. I
just wish that I could take my own
advice. I am my own worst enemy
on pushing myself, having to be the
best at whatever I do. I am very hard
on myself to make sure and please
everyone. Maybe I should have a
new motto!
Q: What makes you really sad?
A: It makes me sad to see what is
going on in the world today. It has
almost become an epidemic on
random shootings. I feel so much
for all the victims. These acts are
changing people’s lives forever.
Little children can’t even feel safe
anymore to go to school. You can’t
attend a movie [and] feel safe. When
I grew up, you could have your child
outside playing. It’s a shame that
children growing up now never had
the freedom I did as a child growing
u p in the country. Forever gone are
the days of “Go Hide and Seek” after
dark!
Q: What’s your favorite hobby?
A: I would have to say my favorite
hobby is actually setting up an estate
sale. I grew up cleaning houses for a
living when I was a teenager and on.
It feels like being an artist. When you
begin, the house is dirty, disoriented,
etc. When you are finished, you have
what looks like a store. It gives me
great pleasure to see the faces of my
clients when they see what I have
done to their homes. You have to
love what you do or you shouldn’t be
doing it.
Q: Do you like to plan things out in
detail or be spontaneous?
A: I am very detail-oriented. I am a
little bit OCD. Everything has to
be in its proper place. Closet doors
need to be closed or I can’t sleep.
Boy, people are going to think I am a
freak. I have to agree that with age I
am getting better. I can go to sleep if
there are dirty dishes in the sink now.
Q: When you were a child, what did
you want to be when you grew up?
A: A nurse. When I was very young
my favorite aunt graduated from nursing school and she gave me her first
white nursing cap. She received one
with stripes on it for her graduation.
I wore that cap all the time dreaming of being a nurse. I idolized her.
After high school I went to work for