: About Me

40-something mother/wife with interests in world religions, cultural differences, education, foklore, mysticism, buffy the vampire slayer and vegetarian cooking.

My passion is ...

writing and reading

I know too much about ...

buffy the vampire slayer

My parents always told me ...

to get my nose out of whatever book i was reading and do something useful

My childhood ambition ...

to be a librarian or a farmer or a playwright or a novelist

My favorite memory ...

i've got kids - there are lots of favorite memories

Why I write ...

to get it down or pin it down; and because i love words

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

we don't watch tv, only dvds of btvs; read just about anything, esp. non-fiction mythology, religious history, folklore, dictionaries, etc. I love biographies of famous writers, too. Mystery novels are a guilty pleasure. Am fascinated with the Moderns - Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Djuna Barnes. Am currently reading James Joyce's Dubliners. Not big on poetry but I love Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay and TS Eliot

My first job ...

cherry picker, at an orchard in wisconsin

My best moment ...

every day with my first cup of coffee

My inspiration ...

doris lessing, dorothy parker, joseph campbell, among others

Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms Differences between the American and European cultures

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Hello America, and all the ships at sea! (I've been reading a Walter Winchell biography for the last two days that's how he started every radio broadcast). Commet allez-vous? Well, here we are at last in France. Actually, we've been here for a month now, but have only had internet and phones for 2 days, which accounts for my temporary vanishing act. I've been so desperate for communication, I've actually resorted to having disturbingly intimate and forcibly long discussions with our cat, Catty, who is not known for being either friendly or particularly interested in anything I do or say. H...

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