Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Poet, Collage Artist, Free Spirit
Location	Central, Louisiana, United States
Links	Audio Clip
Introduction	I'm a human-becoming. I'm a seeker. I love to read, write poetry and short stories, create art from junk---such as collage on cans, altered books made from old magazines cut up, and poems from my heart. I've loved dragonflies since I was a child. I grow herbs, flowers and garden to feed my soul. I have 2 beautiful, intelligent daughters who are school teachers and 3 genius grandchildren: Taylor, who is 12 years old; Mary Mace (the Princess) who is 5 years old; and Warner who is almost 2. They are all the lights of my life and they all have my long legs and brains. I married my high school sweetheart and we're still hanging in, trying to get to know each another again after many decades of marriage. Life is never boring and every day brings fresh adventures, disasters and challenges.
Interests	My Wacky-Loving-Wild Family, Writing, poetry, jewelry-making, dragonflies, nature photography, books, collage art, altered books, herb, flower and vegetable gardening, daydreaming, sewing, moon watching, creating art from trash.
Favorite movies	Overboard, Babbette's Feast, Harold & Maude, Dirty Harry, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Practical Magic, Gia, The Dreamers, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Dirty Dancing, Grey Gardens, Thelma and Louise, Secretary, Casablanca, Steel Magnolias, The Sound of Music, Annie, Sex and the City, Hope Floats
Favorite music	Nick Cave, P. J. Harvey, Grinderman, Blitzen Trapper, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Thelonious Monk, Regina Spektor, Marian McPartland Piano Jazz, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams, Katy Perry, Bob Dylan, Nora Jones, John Hiatt, Courtney Love, Ludicrous, Amy Winehouse, Adele 19, Pearl Jam, Beyonce, Kingfisher Griffin, Phillip Glass, The Doors, The Fray, Soft Jazz, Limp Bizkit, Taylor Swift, Billy Idol, James Blunt, Diana Krall, John Legend, Dizzy Gillespie
Favorite books	And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave, King Ink, And Her Soul Out of Nothing, Shantaram, The Girls by Lori Lansens, Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions, Where I'm Calling From, Cathedral, Diaries of Anais Nin, The Floating World, S., Wise Blood, Franny & Zooey, Nine Stories, The Bible, The Alexandria Quartet, The White Goddess, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, The Mistress of Spices, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Poetry of T. S. Eliot, Czeslaw Milosz's Collected Poems, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse Vampire series, Tom Robbins' books, My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead, Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers and Writers on Tattoos, Life Prayers, Breathing the Water, The Woman Who Walked on Water, The Poems of Pablo Neruda, Brazil, Spiritual Literacy, The Tao, Rick Bragg's books....So Many Books---I LOVE THEM ALL!!!!

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