Lucy Talikwa
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer, visual artist |
| Location | Knoxville, Tennessee, United States |
| Introduction | I am an old and eccentric freelance writer and graphic designer. I have three very different children (Eric, 38, Kirsten, 25, and Emily,15) by three very different husbands (the first nice, but too tame; the second brilliant, but a sociopath—really; and the current one, lovable, but well…age 14 mentally). I have gone from poverty to riches and back again. Definitely back again right now, retired and batty in a small rundown Tudor house in a suburb in West Knoxville, TN. We have four cats, and my husband has a bird I hate, some apathetic fish, and a dog I wish I liked more than I do. |
| Interests | Reading (fiction in the summer, non-fiction in the winter), writing, making art, discussing politics and religion, asking “What Is True?”, collecting funny and/or unusual obituaries, spontaneous photography, my strange family, really good baseball, gardening, playing Sims 1, making Flair, sewing (less than I used to), cooking (less than I used to), watching In Treatment, Mad Men, Dirty Jobs, the Discovery/Learning/NatGeo/MSNBC Channels, getting old and saying anything I damn well please (as it that has ever been a problem), and generally being amazed at living on the earth |
| Favorite Movies | Broadcast News, The Titanic (shut up guys), Oh Brother Where Art Thou, The English Patient (Shut up guys-- grief is another form of love), Pulp Fiction (it's about mercy as well as vengence), Twelve Monkeys, The Princess Bride, The Right Stuff, The Lord of the Rings, anything by Pixar, Steel Magnolias (I'm Quiser), It's A Wonderful Life, Blazing Saddles, All the Harry Potter movies, Ryan's Daughter (you have to be young in the 70s to remember this), anything Tom Hanks or Liam Neisen have ever been in, all musicals of any era |
| Favorite Music | Pachebel’s Canon in D, Vivaldi, Mozart, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Sebelius, Celtic music, folk music from the 60s and early 70s, The Moody Blues, The Beatles, alot of what Emily (age 15) listens to because she has good tastes, Moravian and early American church music, anything having monks or nuns, The Blind Boys of Alabama and all such, African American Spirituals, early jazz and blues artists, Pasty Cline, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, George Gershwin, Big Band, really good Blue Grass, every show tune in the world, "Big Rock Candy Mountain" by Burl Eves, "Country Roads" by John Denver, "Mr. Bojangles" as sung by The Nitty Dirt Band, "Desperado" by The Eagles, and "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton (quit laughing) |
| Favorite Books | Underworld by Don Delillo, all of the Harry Potter books, Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl, all of C.S. Lewis' writings, Webster's Dictionary, Cold Mountain, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy, anything by Oliver Sacks, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius By Dave Eggers, The Bible for comfort, the biography (set) about Teddy Roosevelt by Edmund Morris, poems of Theodore Reothke, of Gerard Manly Hopkins, of Walter Stevens, of Emily Dickinson, of T.S. Elliot, Laura Ingalls Wilder books, Maurice Sendak, The Encyclopedia Britannica, The Brothers Grimm, William Shakespeare all of it, and that is just the tip of the iceberg |