R. T. Freeman

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Writer, Retired home schooling parent
Location New England, United States
Introduction My children are almost all launched, and I'm currently working on my first book, a YA novel with the working title "Lena Ladimer Chronicles: Bury the Dead." I'm also doing a bunch of freelance graphic design on Greeting Card Universe and Zazzle. Ima Lil Ryder is my bloggonym.
Interests writing, launching children, reading, horses, sewing, decorative painting, publication design, Roman Catholicism, anything Thomistic (especially Josef Pieper)
Favorite Movies The Paper, A Man for All Seasons, Gettysburg, The Princess Bride, The Lord of the Rings movies, the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, UP, Pride and Prejudice (Kiera Knightly version), Becoming Jane, Secretariat, Schindler's List, Tangled, The Sound of Music, all the Harry Potter movies
Favorite Music Scarletti, Arvo Part, Chanticleer, Nickel Creek, John Renbourn, San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble, Sons of Mumford, East Mountain South
Favorite Books As mentioned before, anything by Josef Pieper, anything by G. K. Chesterton, anything by Hilaire Belloc (as curmudgeonly as he can be...), much of Bernard Cornwall's historical fiction except Stonehenge (Yuk), Kitchen Confidential, The Big Book, My Daily Bread, My Way of Life, Towards a Truly Free Market, anything by Sharon Kaye Penman, anything by Flannery O'Connor, anything by Fr. James V. Schall, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and the entire Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, Moon Over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool

Lionesses have no manes. How do they know when they've grown up?

What is my youngest sibling's birthday?