Reading, writing, spending time with my children, traveling, talking with Dan...
Music
Talking Heads, Chopin, Bare Naked Ladies, Mozart, Sarah McLaughlin, Gershwin, Queen, Jimmy Cliff, Etta James, AC/DC, John Coltrane, Eagles...
Movies
Station Agent, Whale Rider, Howard's End, About A Boy, Bedazzled, Die Hard, Crash, 40 Year-old Virgin...
Television
House, The Daily Show, The Office, Frontier House, Lost, bad science fiction...
Books
The Sound and the Fury, Heart is a Lonely Hunter, anything by Jane Austen, American Pastoral, The Hours, anything by Annie Dillard, The Yellow Wall Paper, short stories by Chekhov, O'Connor, Hemingway, and Donald Pollack...
About me:
My three primary activities are reading, writing, and parenting. I have five children, three of whom are still underfoot. I try to drive them away with infrequently washed clothes, poorly cooked meals, and general ornerynous (especially when I am working on a story) but somehow they and my dear husband want to stick around anyway. Thank goodness!
I have had articles, both shorts and features, published in a variety of parenting and adoption oriented magazines over the past ten years but am trying to focus efforts on fiction writing these days (meanwhile poetry and creative nonfiction seems to be leaking out at the same time).
And I'm reading as much as possible. Current choices include short story collections by Hawthorne, Alice Munroe, and James Joyce. I'm also enjoying the immense talent of writers found in Surreal South edited by Pinckney and Laura Benedict.
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Who I'd like to meet: Writers, Readers, People with interesting and thoughtful ideas on just about any topic.
