Female |
Vero Beach, FL |
For me, writing is ultimately an act of simply taking some time for myself. A way to process what has happened, how I feel about it, and if I'm lucky, packaging this information in a way that might be palatable, even valuable, to someone else. It is a way to know myself and a way to introduce myself to others. One of the ultimate joys in life...to feel you have been truly recognized by another... |
Fiction, short stories, novels |
Fiction, non-fiction, photography, architecture, painting, gardening, cooking, dance, furniture & industrial design, textiles, ceramics, beekeeping |
modern fiction, historical fiction, non-fiction essays and books |
Anne Tyler, Stephen King, Saul Bellow, Thomas Pynchon, Nabokov, John McPhee, Ken Kesey, Mauve Binchy, Tom Robbins, Gore Vidal, Sigrid Undset, Carrie Fischer, Doris Goodwin, JD Salinger, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, E. L. Doctorow, Jane Austen |
William Carlos Williams, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Frost, Neruda,Wallace Stevens,Ferlinghetti, |
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, its too dark to read. --Groucho Marx |
Generally, the singer-songwriters: Paul Simon, John Prine, Van Morrison, Neil Young, and great epic bands of the 70s pink Floyd, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Beatles, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Dire Straights, Heart, Crosby...but also some current stuff |
Big fan of anything my favorite actors are in...largely Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, Judy Dench, Alan Arkin, Greg Kinnear, Frances McDormand, Dustin Hoffman, Sally Field,Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara,Maggie Smith, Matt Damon, |
I like Sorkin's stuff, loved the West Wing...I like Girls, Downton Abbey at times, BBC comedies, documentaries, The White Queen, Dead Like Me, |