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Gender Female
Location Somewhere along the coast of New England, United States
Introduction My blog: the further small adventures, musings, mutterings, run-on sentences and occasional visual flourishes of an often bewildered, easily amused 50-something artist.
Interests solitude, music, art, wine, reading, NPR, perfume, maps, Wallace & Gromit, A.D.D., IKEA, Lynda Barry, children's books, used bookshops, road trips, polka dots, sangria, loons, walks, hikes, wandering, abandoned places, art journalling, collage, cemetaries, thrift shops, libraries, whippets, greyhounds, Maine, snail mail, laughing, drawing
Favorite Movies The Secret Of Roan Inish, North By Northwest, Strictly Ballroom, The Shop Around The Corner, Everything Is Illuminated, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Next Stop Wonderland, A Little Romance, High Fidelity, The Usual Suspects, Arsenic And Old Lace, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Jaws, Thin Man series, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers films, The Fisher King, Spinal Tap, Local Hero, Rear Window
Favorite Music Liana La Havas, Guster, Regina Spektor, Avett Brothers, Richard Thompson, Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh, Jamie Cullum, India Arie, Andrew Bird, Roxy Music, Kasey Chambers, Hothouse Flowers, Al Green, Cocteau Twins, Pink Martini, Velvet Underground, Stevie Wonder, The Pixies, Natalie MacMaster, The Waifs, Ella Fitzgerald, The Clash, Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros, Jonathan Richman, Essex Green, Martin Sexton, Robyn Hitchcock, Aimee Mann, Van Morrison, Beth Orton, George Gershwin, Patty Griffin, XTC...are some....
Favorite Books The Little Stranger, Water For Elephants, Rebecca, The Book Thief, Human Croquet, The Poisonwood Bible, To Kill A Mockingbird, Titus Groan, Chocolat, My Family And Other Animals, Kafka On The Shore, The Go-Between, Haven Kimmel, Howard Frank Mosher, Kate Atkinson, Lynda Barry, Penelope Lively, Jane Gardam, Paul Theroux