E.M. Gray
My blogs
| Occupation | Culinary-Hospitality |
|---|---|
| Location | The Ozarks, Missouri |
| Introduction | It took many years before I became comfortable with my Ozarkian existence. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it came from knowing that my parents were from different places. It was in the late '60s when my folks moved to this small town of Rock Prairie from Orlando, Florida. Eventually my dad purchased 75 acres just south of town. The property consisted of open fields in the middle with wooded borders and a small stream named Sinking Creek which flowed on the north side. When my dad decided to begin farming full time - much to my Mother's dismay - my brother, sister and I were thrust into the role of farm kids. As the farm grew, so did our list of chores. I spent my adolescence dreaming of the day when I would one day leave the farm. And leave I did, at the tender age of 16 with a baby in one arm and a young military husband on the other. Throughout the years, I have lived from Atlanta to Tucson and several cities inbetween, but I have always managed to make my way back. The Ozarks are a part of me. In a funny twist of fate, the land on which I now live borders the old homestead on one side and Sinking Creek on the other. |
| Interests | Cooking, Gardening, Reading, Writing, Cinema, NPR, Travel, And GOOD Red Wine |
| Favorite Movies | Gone With The Wind, Titanic, French Kiss, Bridget Jones's Diary, Independence Day, Moulin Rouge, Pride and Prejudice, ... best written T.V. shows, Frasier, The Soprano's, Sex and the City |
| Favorite Music | Classical, New Age, Folk, Blues to Hard Rock ...I love it all. |
| Favorite Books | Anything by:, Amy Tan, John Jakes, James Clavell, John Grisham, Bailey White, Stephen King's "On Writing", Gone With The Wind, Tesla-Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney |