Ruminating

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation author, editor, oral historian, grandmother, ballroom dancer retired teacher and college administrator
Location Traverse city, MI, United States
Introduction A tale of two cities, Traverse City and New Rochelle, homes on the water in both places. The youngest of five sisters, lucky in all my lives and loves, work and play, childhood and elder age, children and grandchildren . . .
Interests music, literature, scuba, poodles, ballroom dancing, oral history, tennis, sailing, books, books and more books
Favorite Movies Casablanca, of course, Pride and Prejudice, all of them, Singing in the Rain . . . am I showing my age???
Favorite Music Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, of course, but also Cole Porter, Rogers and Hart, Sondheim, and also jazz, and the great organ repertory from my years as an organ student with Jean Langlais
Favorite Books The book I have in my hands or closest to me. Can't even begin to name or list, from Shakespeare to the great detective writers to Tolkien, to Dorothy Dunnett, and of course Jane A . . .