My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Female
Industry	Non-Profit
Location	Melrose, MA
Introduction	Gayle Saks-Rodriguez has been a writer since filling her fourth grade diary with such perfectly crafted sentences as: "Ricky is getting confirmed tommorrow. Since I'm Jewish, I'm not really sure what it does. I should congradulate [sic] him though." She has written about everything from her mother’s double-suicide, online dating, to her work with female inmates, with deep honesty, candor and humor. A piece about her best friend’s addiction to crystal meth was recently chosen as an Editor’s Pick on opensalon.com, the sister site of Salon.com. Saks-Rodriguez (when she wasn’t yet a hyphenate) grew up on Long Island in a town that most people have never heard of and lives with her husband, daughter, two orange tabbies and one slightly insane Lab mix in New England.
Favorite movies	Life is Sweet, Hannah and her Sisters, West Side Story, Lost in Translation, Cinema Paradiso, Annie Hall, Hoop Dreams, Born into Brothels, Half Nelson, Boogie Nights
Favorite music	Stevie Wonder, Peter Gabriel, Fatboy Slim, Macy Gray, Exile on Main Street, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Public Enemy, a great horn section
Favorite books	The Bone People, Lolita, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Crow Road, Beloved, Maus, A Walk in the Woods, Under the Banner of Heaven, The Book Thief