Emily J.
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Busy |
| Location | California, United States |
| Introduction | Practicing to be a better Navy wife, mom of 7, Catholic, runner, reader, rememberer, writer, educator of self and others |
| Interests | Reading, running, talking, spying, trying not to kill things in the garden, burn things in the kitchen, or totally ruin craft projects. |
| Favorite Movies | Not in any order, and just listing so I don't forget: Gone with the Wind, Babe, The Incredibles, My Dog Skip, Babette's Feast, Cinema Paradiso, Hotel Rwanda, Roman Holiday, Life is Beautiful, Juno, Millions, St. Ralph, Assissi Underground, Sound of Music, Empire of the Sun, Au Revoir les Enfants, Bourne Identity, Fargo, Mary Poppins, Lars and the Real Girl, Indiana Jones, The English Patient, Chitty, Chitty, Bang Bang, Pride and Prejudice (any but Keira Knightley's), Miss Potter, A Room with a View, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Henry Poole Was Here, Lord of the Rings, Shall We Dance (not Richard Gere's), Eat Drink Man Woman, Big Night, Moulin Rouge, Munich, Amelie, Kolya, A Beautiful Mind, Waking Ned Divine |
| Favorite Music | Doc Watson, Raffi, Putomayo World Playground, Norah Jones, Jack Johnson, John Denver, John Cougar Mellencamp, James Taylor, old U2, old REM, Annie Hatke, The Dorff family singers, Alison Kraus, Indigo Girls and Dixie Chicks secret pleasures, Chieftains and Irish pub songs, songs from Rabbit Ears, Classic's for Kids, Opera for Children, show tunes and bluegrass, God Beyond All Praising, The Servant Song, Lift High the Cross, Draw Near, Dona nobis pacem, Veni Creator Spiritus, songs from Taize, Notre Dame Our Mother and the ND fight song, Alan Jackson |
| Favorite Books | I haven't met many books I didn't like. Gone with the Wind, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, A River Runs Through It, Miss Rumphius, The Clown of God, Don Quixote, Augustine's Confessions, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Closing of the American Mind, Ideas Have Consequences, Idea of a University, Everlasting Man, Poetics, The Odyssey, Eighth Day Books catalogs, Quotidian Mysteries, Mariette in Ecstasy, A Green Journey, Silence, My Antonia, Cry the Beloved Country, Mystery and Manners and other O'Connor, Lizzie's War, lots and lots of picture books: All the Places to Love, Winnie the Pooh, Anne books, The Secret Garden, Little House books, Ramona books, Mrs Piggle Wiggle, Little Babaji, Funny Little Woman, Lily and the Purple Plastic Purse, We Played Marbles, Great Possessions, End of the Affair, Possession, Orthodoxy, Spirit of the Liturgy, Beloved, Crunchy Cons, Divine Comedy, In This House of Brede, Scent of Water, Memento Mori, Kristin Lavransdatter, An Uncommon Reader, Lord of the Rings, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Theological Aesthetics, How to Read a Book, How to Read a Book and Why, Letters to a Young Catholic, Hunting for Hope, anything by Wendell Berry, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis, Walker Percy, Richard Scarry, Tasha Tudor, Charles Dickens, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and ... |