Lin Hawthorne lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her four little elves and her husband, David. Christmas looks a bit different in the desert as it's never very cold and everyone puts Santa hats on top of their spiky Saguaros. She originally hails from central Louisiana and has a love for all things Cajun. She may have missed out on the accent, but it's burned in her mind by all of her many relatives. If you ask nicely, she'll read "The Barnyard Sang" to you in a dead-on accurate Evergreen twang.