ddip
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| Introduction | francophone midwestern girl with three cats, a miniature poodle, and a new wife |
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| Interests | the predictable things for my demographic: cooking, reading, gardening, travel, yoga, you get the picture |
| Favorite Movies | these days it's "Under the Tuscan Sun." I love the escape-to-Europe fantasy, and I like the way it doesn't shirk from showing, in a humorous way, the pathetic state caused by grief. And, okay, I admit it. I'm smitten with Diane Lane. |
| Favorite Music | I've been listening to Tony Bennett lately. I like his CD "Perfectly Frank, " in which he sings some of the classics that made Frank Sinatra famous. I love his rendition of "I Wished on the Moon." Can't quite decide if it's Tony's slightly raspy voice I'm crazy about--or the unforgettable Ralph Sharon Trio that backs him up. Otherwise, I like classical music, country and western, nineteenth-century European arias (especially Maria Callas), classical folk traditions from places like Turkey and India, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, and Sarah Vaughan, rockers like Bruce Springsteen, the list goes on. |
| Favorite Books | I used to be stuck in the nineteenth century, but V.S. Naipaul has brought me firmly into the twentieth century. I'm reading his classic novel "A House for Mr. Biswas, " which is a long sustained cry for "place." |