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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Evaluation Researcher |
| Location | Baton Rouge (by way of the NW), LA, United States |
| Introduction | I am an academic (a converted attorney) who landed in Louisiana and never left. There have to be other women like me: women who moved to places beyond their comprehension because of their families? Regardless, I've had and continue to have an extraordinary life. |
| Interests | Family, including, of course my beautiful and brilliant grandchildren, The West, Friends, writing, cooking, reading, travel, water (almost any water anywhere), art (stained glass, watercolor, pottery, especially porcelain, and right now Mixed Media particularly by Dennis Campay), cuckoo clocks. The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement. And I really like my work, it's pretty interesting. |
| Favorite Movies | From the sublime to the ridiculous. This changes, but off the top of my head: Christopher Guest's Movies (Best in Show, et al.); Leaving Las Vegas; The Falcon and the Snowman; One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest; The Shawshank Redemption; The Green Mile; The Trip to Bountiful; Dr. Zhivago; Out of Africa; Cool Hand Luke; It's a Wonderful Life. I'm a Bill Murray fan (From Ghostbusters to Lost in Translation, et al.) and a Woody Allen fan (circa, Interiors and Manhattan). My favorite move of all time is: White Christmas. Lately, I enjoy art films, mostly on Netflix; however, I did like The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Imitation Game . Listen: I like when the good guys win, or when life is exposed in its ridiculousness. Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day was one of my favorite movies of 2013. This is how life should be: the good of heart win out, and the bad get punished, all in short order! |
| Favorite Music | Pretty much in any genera, in various eras. Off the top of my head: Lucinda Williams, Alison Krause and the Union Station (their Dobro player, Jerry Douglas, makes my knees go weak, as do any and all players of the pedal steel guitar) Eric Clapton (talk about weak knees!), most all Broadway!, Live Jazz at Snug Harbor in New Orleans. My husband's music melts my heart-- he's really very good, particularly as a lyricist. At the moment I'm really digging Hector Lavoe. Ai Yee -- Salsa! |
| Favorite Books | I've been into Jungian, feminist, naturalist writers for awhile now (Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Jean Shinoda Bolen and Susan M. Tiberghien). They all have 3 names. I like writers with a Buddhist slant: My hero is Johanna Macy ("Dharma and Development" "World as Lover, World as Self"). One of my favorite book of all time is the Poisonwood Bible. Can you tell there's a theme here? In the past few years I've been on an Ann Patchett kick, and my newest favorite book is now Bel Canto. I'm reading Truth and Beauty, her memoir. On the lighter side: For belly laughs: Carl Hiassen and now David Sedaris. I also like Ken Kesey's books: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion. Related to that: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (because I wanted to be a Merry Prankster but I'm just not, because I loved Ken Kesey, and because I want to write like Tom Wolfe). Lately I've been so in love with several ecologist writers: Susan Tweit, Robert Michael Pyle and Terry Tempest Williams. |