annie turner
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Williamsburg, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | TAGS: CANCER, FAITH, CATHOLIC BROAD COOKS, BAD CATHOLIC BROAD--I am old enough to have been born at the end of the last World War. I grew up in the 50s in a small New England town, which was safe and comfy but also stifling to someone who read Colette and aspired to being a 19th-century courtesan in Paris. I went to Bates, studied in Oxford for a year, and converted--much to my surprise and dismay--to Christianity while there, listening to Bach's St. John's Passion. I trained as a teacher, then became a writer. I live in a passive-solar house my husband and I designed, 1200 feet up in the hills of W. Mass. I love my life and hope it continues! This was written before I got cancer, diagnosed in October, 2015: had 2 surgeries then months of chemo, lost hair, but now in "Survivorship" and doing well--getting energy back, exercising like crazy, praying, and cooking. You have to set goals for physical fitness when in Recovery, which I am doing: walking up hills with training poles; starting jogging again; and aiming for 10,000 steps a day. IF we're to visit Assissi again, I need to get in shape! |
| Interests | Gardening, sustainable living, books, music, my grown "kids," faith, church community, dogs, wildlife, birds, C.S.Lewis, Fr.Jim Martin, my husband, food & cooking, dinner with friends, walking, gardening, reading,being a trans* ally, supporting the LGBTQ community, mysticism, mystics |
| Favorite movies | The African Queen, Young Frankenstein, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Love Actually, and almost anything on the BBC--Call the Midwife, Downton Abby, and more. |
| Favorite music | Quartets, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Celtic, Reggae, Gregorian Chant, Adele, Arethra Franklin, any dance music from the 60s, Audrey Assad, Mariah Carey singing "Jesus!" which took me every week down to my infusions and put heart in me. |
| Favorite books | The All Soul's Trilogy by Deborah Harkness; H Is for Hawk, The Bible; Rumi's poetry; any Doyle & Acton mystery by Anne Cleeland; mysteries by Elly Griffith; the Charles Lenox mystery series; Joanna Bourne novels; & tons of theology--Brian Doyle, St. Augustine, Fr. James Martin, Dorothy Day, Michael Leach, America Magazine, St. Anthony's Messenger. |