Beth
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Aspiring writer; successful mother |
| Location | North Carolina mountains, United States |
| Interests | Hiking, writing, reading, porch sitting, raising kind and spiritual children, growing in my own spiritual life, growing wild profusions of gaudy flowers, growing older with Tom, growing a gentle spirit, and growing a tougher hide. |
| Favorite Movies | Wit, Babette's Feast, Truly Madly Deeply, The Apostle, Amelie, Big Fish, Love Actually, Waking Ned Devine, Life is Beautiful, Matewan, Duel, The Sound of Music, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, As It Is In Heaven |
| Favorite Music | Eva Cassidy, Patty Griffin, Doc Watson, Chet Atkins, Amos Lee, Eastmountainsouth, Girlyman, Kris Delmhorst, Louvin Brothers, Mindy Smith, Norah Jones, Wailin' Jennys, Weepies, Whitstein Brothers, Winterpills, Yo-yo Ma, and anything my son Benjamin plays on his guitar with the possible exception of Smoke on the Water |
| Favorite Books | Actually my favorite authors---Marilynne Robinson, Tim Gautreaux, Anne Tyler, Lee Smith, Pamela Duncan, Doris Betts, Elizabeth Berg, and anything written by my daughter Ariel with the possible exception of the ten-page paper she wrote about ships and shipping for that history class she took freshman year |