me as i am
| Introduction | always in search of improving myself and being authentic :) |
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| Interests | parenting, meaningful conversation, healing, good stories, self-expression, writing, therapy, jung, trauma recovery, 12 step recovery, codependency, memoir, fairy tales, feminism, folktales, gender studies, human rights, tolerance, acceptance, peace, morality, pacifism, religion, humanism, agnosticism, atheism, taoism, buddhism, judaism, interfaith dialogue, spirituality, existentialism, authenticity, self-actualization |
| Favorite Movies | amelie, the color purple, anne of green gables, pleasantville, yentl, antonia's line, pride and prejudice (BBC), eternal sunshine, the doctor, field of dreams, dead poet's society, the fisher king, the shipping news, torch song trilogy, normal, monsoon wedding, the princess bride, my big fat greek wedding, wings of desire, far away-so close, grand canyon, star wars trilogy, edward scissorhands, ladyhawke, enemy mine, goonies, some kind of wonderful, stuart saves his family, parenthood, strangers in good company, the celluloid closet, terms of endearment, strictly ballroom, isn't she great, the incredible shrinking woman, 9 to 5, mr. mom, 12 angry men, harvey, mr. smith goes to washington, holiday, gentlemen's agreement guess who's coming to dinner, the apartment, the odd couple, tootsie, kramer vs. kramer, all the president's men, and musicals :) |
| Favorite Music | hem, catie curtis, rose cousins, cowboy junkies, joni mitchell, enya, the weepies, feist, frou frou, sinead o'connor, tracy chapman, janis ian, the dixie chicks, edie brickell & the new bohemians, frente, elizabeth mitchell, tegan & sara, sarah vaughan, roberta flack, billie holiday, nina simone, the cure, peter gabriel, queen, otis redding, glenn miller, the sundays, talking heads |
| Favorite Books | the color purple by alice walker, the glass castle by jeannette walls, losing my religion by william lobdell, oranges are not the only fruit by jeannette winterson, the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera, illusions and one by richard bach, the prophet by khalil gibran, the chosen and my name is asher lev by chaim potok, autobiography of a face by lucy grealy, laughing without an accent: adventures of a global citizen by firoozeh dumas, fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury, man's search for meaning by viktor frankl, their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston, wuthering heights by emily bronte, torey hayden's books, writing down the bones and long quiet highway by natalie goldberg, at home in the world by joyce maynard, the liar's club by mary karr, the diary of anne frank, women who run with the wolves by dr. clarissa pinkola estes, the velveteen rabbit, and the old folk tales and the comic books my mom used to teach me to read... |