Writing, reading, movies, theatre, music, art, walking the dog (when I had one) and spending time with a few very special people.
Music
Anything and everything, just about. It depends what mood I'm in. I like Rock 'n' Roll, especially Buddy Holly. I love Darren Hayes and Miriam Stockley's work and voices. I love Beethoven's Fur Elise for Piano and Bach's Toccata and Fugue for the organ. I love Bryan Adams. Honestly though, I love a wide range of music the same way I love a wide range of books.
Movies
All sorts. I love fantasy, sci-fi, action movies, and some romances especially if they're comedy romances. I tend to like unusual things. To list them would be incredibly difficult but to name just a few I have to mention The Legend of 1900, The Princess Bride, Underworld, Harvey, Mirrormask, The Fisher King, I Capture the Castle, Dream a Little Dream and yet this still doesn't give the scope of the range of movies that I love.
Television
Series. I like series. I've bought most of the ones I loved, which include Firefly, Quantum Leap, Due South, I-Man, Brisco County, American Gothic, Farscape, Stargate, Monkey among many, many others. I like House, and Grey's Anatomy. Good sci-fi or fantasy, drama or a good comedy.
Books
It would be easier to ask who I don't like. I have very eclectic tastes but books I wish I'd written include:
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake.
The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop.
Wraeththu Trilogy by Storm Constantine.
Heroes
Most of my heroes are real people, real friends. If I mentioned them, I'd probably embarrass them. I love the work of Sam Raimi, Tim Burton, and Neil Gaiman among others.
Which ArchAngel are you most like?
Rafael. You're most like the ArchAngel of Healing. You want people to shape up, and you nag. But you mean well, and you're well loved despite it. Or because of it. You bring the donuts even as you tell people to eat more veggies. Take this quiz!
Sharon is now fighting anti-virus software and that's after fighting the printer over the weekend. Some days she hates technology! Posted 16 hours ago view more
Paper fluttering in a cold breeze
torn from a book.
The knife cutting into flesh and blood seeps
black as a raven
in a tree where no bird can ever sing.
A burning line of fire
blackens branches.
A woman's wailing is the only sound
her face unseen hidden in her stained hands
though the skin is obscene white.
In searing heat from the pit
of his stomach the red flame rose
burning up towards the throat
consuming the heart.
Love and anger at war
has scorched the earth.
The wind dies and nothing stirs.
(c) S.M.Bidwell 2003
A writer from the UK, Sharon had her first short story accepted by the second publication to which she offered it. This was entitled ‘Silver Apples of the Moon’ published by Roadworks Magazine. The editor quoted it as accepted due to having ‘both a Sci-fi and horror element, strong on characterisation, and quite literary, in terms of style’. Editor, Trevor Denyer, said that it was a story that ‘had me gripped from start to finish’ and as a result pronounced her as ‘a writer who is going places’. Since then, her work - poems, short stories and articles - have appeared steadily in print and online publications.
Previously, she has kept the erotic side of her writing separate. The genre appealed though as it allows her the freedom to create something more expressive, less oppressive. She firmly believes that having a chance at such ‘free reign’ occasionally reflects favourably in her work. It has always been a part of her personality in that she likes surprising and delighting people.
Subsequently, she has been approached on occasion to write articles such as reports and publicity material, though her focus will always be story telling. She links her most favoured and often most successful work closely to fantasy, though her writing crosses genres. She often thinks about moving but lives primarily in a world of her own.
aonia - where the muses live
http://www.sharonbidwell.co.uk
Who I'd like to meet: Readers and writers. People who love books no matter what their format. Readers who understand how it feels to be lost in another world and writers who know what it's like to create one.
Friends I've made online and known for too long without actually meeting and to see those I have managed to meet up with again in the near future. I would have loved to have met Roddy McDowell who, alas, is no longer with us.
Yesterday and today, they have been working on TRYING to FIX the mess they made. This morning, I walked out and asked them to PLEASE take the 3 feet deep of driveway stones OUT of my flower bed, and could they PLEASE put TOPSOIL BACK into my flowerbed. SO, WE'LL SEE if they FIX IT. They DID however fix Nana Dolly's flowerbed and Lori's yard, the yard that was in this photo. AND YES, it's been HARD TO PUT UP WITH. UGGHHHHH!!!!
:) :) :) :) OHHHHH, I wish YOU WERE CLOSE BY. I'd cook ya up a BUNCH of Pa. Dutch Treats. OHHHHH< YES I WOULD!!!!! :) :) :) AND we'd HAVE SO MUCH FUN TOO!!!!! I'm so happy that the things I've posted have brought you back to the kitchen and making your own goodies too. YOU SHOULD MAKE THESE!!!! SO EASY and SO GOOD. OMG!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
:) :) :) LOVE MY SQUIRRELS TOO. And if that lady cuts down my Hickory Nut trees on Friday, they won't have the hickory nuts to eat. Makes me so sad Sharon.
My camera is a Fuji S2000HD LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! The price wasn't really that bad. Around $400 give or take. It has a macro AND a super macro setting. LOVE THAT. I used the super macro setting for this photo. It also has an auto setting where you don't have to mess with anything. BUT it has so many other settings that I haven't even learned all of them yet. :)
OH MY GOODNESS SHARON, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!! I LOVED THAT DRESS!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) AND YES, they were all HANDSOME MEN!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) That would be my ex husband in this photo. :) :) :) :)
OMG SHARON, my Chris CRIED and CRIED when he saw Rachael in her wedding dress and when she was walking down the isle to him. I thought he was going to start sobbing. He was sniffing, and SMILING, and sniffing, and SMILING and then he was whipeing his NOSE. Not KIDDING, I was going to just bend down, and SLIDE my pack of tissues across the floor to him. Didn't do that though. BUT I WANTED TO. :) :) :) :) :) :)
I'm sorry too LOL. I could be a stay at home mum, I really could :) Back on Thursday and Friday for training days, so at least it will be nice and peaceful. I'm really looking forward to the concert :) My first concert was Deacon Blue. Do you remember them? Ah..those were the days LOL
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) HI SHARON!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) I LOVED THOSE DEER!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) I took ALOT of photos of them. Couldn't decide WHAT photos to post. I didn't post near all of them, but there's ALOT OF PHOTOS!!!!! ") I get stuck on a subject and can't stop taking PHOTOS. It's a DISEASE YOU KNOW!!!!! ") Thanks SO MUCH for commenting and looking at my RAFT OF PHOTOS!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) I hope you have the most BEAUTIFUL DAY SHARON!!!!! HUGSSSS TO YOU, LOTSA LOVE TO YOU and God Bless Susie :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
OHHHH, I hope she's o.k. You know how PEOPLE are. They move into the wildlife's living space, and then they persecute the poor wildlife because they can't handle having the wildlife there. Coming home yesterday, we saw SOMETHING that had gotten hit on the roadside of the dunes right where we go onto the beach with the Jeep. I'm HOPING that she's o.k. I really do. If she's not there this coming weekend, I'll know if she was hit or if the game commission relocated her. I'm also worried, because there's another storm forming down in the Carribbean. The weather channel says that anyone between the DelMarVa and New England should keep a heads up on the storm. If she's living by the ocean, she could have a ROUGH weekend coming up. Yes, it IS such a WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE. Our park closes the first weekend of Oct. I'm ALREADY getting homesick. THIS is why I miss it SO MUCH. Always BEAUTY THERE, NATURE AT IT"S BEST!!!!!! I LONG for it a whole winter long. HUGSSSS TO YOU SHARON, LOTSA LOVE TO YOU and God Bless Susie :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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