|   | Gender: | Female | | Birthday: | June 7 1948 | | Location: | Hannibal, Missouri,USA | | About Me: | I retired after 32 years of teaching art & literature in Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana, & Missouri. Alumni of Murray State Univ.,Murray, KY. Go Racers!
I'm the oldest of 6,from the Mississippi River town,Cape Girardeau,MO.
I have 1 son and 3 grandchildren.
I enjoy music,literature,studio art,roaming highways & byways, dancing in powwows, and sometimes just doing nothing. Life is good!
BTW, y'all invited to my 100th birthday celebration. Johnny Depp and Josh Groban will be there! :)) | | Type of Writer: | poet (watercolor stories) | | Writing Style: | I'm not sure. I am still exploring and experimenting. Dabbling and doodling. | | Interests: | Being w/grandkids,reading for recreation & learning,writing poetry,
watercolor painting,
road trips,collecting talking stones,camping,hiking,
dancing in regalia at powwows,
listening to music,
being at the Grand Canyon and the Smoky Mountains!!! | | Favorite Books: | Thirteen Moons, Black Elk Speaks,Sacagawea,
Wuthering Heights,
The Good Earth,
Great Expectations,
Wind From the Carolinas, Anne of Green Gables,Bayou, The Wayward Muse, Cold Sassy Tree
| | Favorite Authors: | Louise Erdrich,
Charles Frazier,
Pearl S. Buck,
Jane Austin,
L.M. Montgomery,
Sue Grafton,Janet Evonovich,
Alice Hoffman,
Robert Wilder,Dr. Wayne Dyer | | Favorite Poets: | Alfred Noyes (especially, "The Highwayman",read to me as a child by my mother..also my first inspiration to write poetry),
Emily Dickinson | | Favorite Quote: |
[Tim Robbins..."Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form."]
[Rumi..."The morning breeze has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep." ]
[John C. Campbell Folk School..."I sing behind the plow."]
| | Favorite Music: | N.Am.(Brule,Robbie Robertson,Robert Mirabal,Douglas Spotted Eagle, Nakai) Folk/
Blues/Jazz/Celtic/ Bob Dylan,Stones,Josh Groban, B.J. Thomas, Michael Grimm,Teddy Thompson,Judy Collins, Carly Simon, Adelle, Loreena McKinnet, Eva Cassidy,Stevie Nicks | | Favorite Movies: | Against A Crooked Sky, Last of the Dogmen,
Under the Tuscan Sun, A Summer Place, Lorna Doone, Rich In Love, Chocolat, Bennie and Joon,The Blue Butterfly,Shakespeare In Love,A Dog Of Flanders,
Avatar, The Girl With the Pearl Earring,Don Juan Demarco |
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