: About Me

I'm Cheri Long, a writer and editor living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (my US mailing address is in Laredo, TX). I have an MA in English from Northern Illinois University. I'm trilingual, speaking Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, and speak a little French.

I spend a lot of time editing for other writers, but have had non-fiction articles published in various magazines and online journals, on the subjects of politics, health, psychology and religion. I've published a small number of short stories and poems as well. At present am working on a novel, having written one before as well as two screenplays.

I'm married to an Episcopal priest, I do a lot of charity work locally here in Mexico, have two grown children, one grandson and three dogs. I love to read, also indulging often in film studies and in cooking, but travel is my first love. I grew up in Texas, spent most of my adult life in Chicago before moving to Mexico in '97.

Selling my writing is not my forte, which is true for a lot of writers. I could use some networking. I enjoy the internet a lot, and do my main research via the net.

My passion is ...

novels

I know too much about ...

my family

My parents always told me ...

don't smoke-I did not listen

My childhood ambition ...

to be a designer in Paris or a lawyer in Washington

My favorite memory ...

sitting in my grandmother's garden under the pecan trees

Why I write ...

How else can I get all of it out?

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Truman Capote's as well as Forster's Complete Short Stories

My first job ...

florist's-I made 40 bucks a week in 1965

My best moment ...

meeting my husband in the 60's and falling in love at first sight

My inspiration ...

playing computer games with my 5-year-old genius grandson

Society & Lifestyle > North American Culture Consumption culture in today's America

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My most comfortable pair of Reeboks were excruciating and my tongue was a piece of tattered felt; I could kill for a G & T but day's end would be but a leg of the journey. Was I at war, in the trenches, ready for another shelling to spray my comrades? No, I was just trying to find a working clock in the 3rd section of the market place in an IKEA store in Round Rock, Texas. Very clever of the Swedes: there's no clock so if you've been cavalier and forgotten your wristwatch, you're done for. But it's the most wonderful time of the year in America, and one must do one's part. Truth be told, i...

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