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Interests |
Cooking, literature, learning, art, history, film, community cultures, music, writing, social media, travel, language, red wine and Guiness. |
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Activities |
Many and varied! |
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Favorite Quotes |
Your life is an occasion, rise to it. – Mr. Magorium
If it cannot be done in kindness, perhaps it should not be done. – Lisa D. Jenkins
If you can’t change the people around you, change the people around you. – Roy Boehm
Everything you want to change about yourself. All the parts of yourself that you keep secret. It’s your power. It’s who. You. Are. – from the new FAME
Remembering that someone is no longer in your life is not the same as missing them. – Lisa D. Jenkins |
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Favorite Movies |
Harvey, Penny Serenade, Billy Elliot, Kafka, The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Passion, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Usual Suspects, Dancer in the Dark, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Clue, Mr. Magoriam’s Wonder Emporium, M, Eulogy, His Gal Friday, The Quiet Man, A Christmas Story, In Bruges, and oh, so many more. I love film. |
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Favorite Music |
Dashboard Confessional, Everlast, Anna Nalick, Josh Joplin Group, Lily Allen, the Pogues, The Shins, Rufus Wainwright, Keith Urban, KD Lang, MercyMe, Faith Hill, Billy Joel, Nelly Furtado, Green Day, AC/DC, Van Halen, Dropkick Murphys, Scorpions, David Crowder Band, Queensryche, Ozzy, RUSH, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Flogging Molly, George Jones, REM, Patsy Cline, Peter Gabriel, Leonard Cohen, The Eagles, Katy Perry, Radiohead, Robert Johnson . . . |
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Favorite Books |
TITLES: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan, Post Secret (various contributors), The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David The Once and Future King by T.H. White, The Alchemist by Paolo Cohelo, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Good Omens by Neil Gaimon and Terry Pratchett.
NOTEWORTHY AUTHORS: Sharon Kay Penman, Patrick McManus, Dorothy Parker, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Kurt Vonnegut, Madeleine L’Engle, Shel Silverstein, Agatha Christie, Bernard Cornwell . . . Truthfully, I read so much there is no way for me to list everything I love about literature. I own hundreds of books and I read them all, all the time; currently I’m finishing The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake, am re-reading Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan, and just started An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iaian Pears. |
