Shawn
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Writer/Teacher |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | I love words, ideas and practices that help people, if only in small ways. Besides my latest incarnation as a weekend homesteader, I'm also an editor, teacher, book author (www.helpmeasia.com) and co-founder of a grassroots charity that works to improve education for kindergarten children in Laos. |
| Interests | Learning, teaching, humanity, philanthropy, leadership, writing, vipassana meditation, sustainable living, permaculture, shared communities, world politics, thoughtful/insightful films, art and photography. |
| Favorite movies | American Graffiti, The Electric Horseman, The Outsiders, Empire of the Sun, Born into Brothels, City of Angels, The Shawshank Redemption, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Waking Ned Devine, Lord of the Rings, The Accidental Tourist, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Bull Durham, The Matrix, When Harry Met Sally, Babies, Up in the Air, The Wrestler, A Single Man, The Lovely Bones, Avatar |
| Favorite music | Jack Johnson, David Gray, U2, Jeff Buckley, Dinah Washington, Counting Crows, Sinead O'Connor, Colm Wilkinson, Leonard Cohen, Josh Groban, Ashley MacIsaac |
| Favorite books | A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry), Barney's Version (Mordecai Richler), The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (MG Vassanji),White Noise (Don DeLillo), The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver, The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy), The Human Stain (Philip Roth), The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), All That Matters (Wayson Choy), The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini), everything by Margaret Laurence...and too many others to list. |