Left-Handed Housewife

My blogs

About me

Gender Female
Occupation Homemaker, Rabble-rouser
Introduction I'm a writer and a stay-at-home mom who keeps meaning to mop the floors because I think it would make me happy if I did. I love books and music and writing, spend entirely too much time in the dentist's chair (I bet I have more crowns than you do), and used to think I was sort of bohemian, but now I wonder. No tattoos. Minivan. That story.
Interests Reading, writing, fiddling, knitting, quilting, gardening, sewing, cooking, poetry, theology, the inner lives of children, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothy Day, Wendell Berry, N.T. Wright, Walter Brueggemann, Ellen F. Davis, Domestic History, Oral History, Southern Culture
Favorite Movies Babette's Feast, Breaking Away, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Shawshank Redemption, Passionfish, Matewan, Topsy-Turvy, Secrets and Lies, Coal Miner's Daughter, Howard's End, A Room with a View, All About Eve, Billy Elliot, Chariots of Fire
Favorite Music Drive-By Truckers, Gillian Welch, The Hold Steady, The Clash, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Ella Fitzgerald, Steve Earle, The Innocence Mission, The Pogues, Flaming Lips, Anonymous 4, Arvo Part, Sun Volt, Wilco, Rickie Lee Jones, Lucinda Williams, The Psalters
Favorite Books A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Cat's Eye, Lonesome Dove, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, An American Childhood, Harriet the Spy, Net of Jewels, What Are People For, Hannah Coulter, Coming Through Slaughter, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, All the Pretty Horses, Lots of poetry: Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Lucille Clifton, Stanley Kunitz, Campbell McGrath, Kate Daniels, Yusef Komunyakaa, James Wright, Franz Wright