The Surly Old Bookbroad

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Bookseller, Writer, Photographer, Artist
Location Eugene, Oregon, United States
Introduction I have been an antiques dealer, professional journalist and photographer, artist, illustrator, editor, poet, chicken and goat farmer. Currently I sell used and rare books and ephemera.
Interests Books, ephemera, art, collage, writing, photography, gardening, nature, critters, cooking, music, friends.
Favorite Movies Bye Bye Blues, Eat Drink Man Woman, Babette's Feast, The Acre, Secondhand Lions, Tampop, Birdie, most musicals.
Favorite Music Classical, folk, ethnic, blues, guitar, and just about anything with musicality, harmony, rhythm.
Favorite Books The Oxford English Dictionary, Fup, Book of the Dun Cow, poetry by William Stafford, and 20, 000 others.

Why does the taste of pennies remind you of losing a tooth?

There is iron in a penny and iron in our blood. A penny-ante irony.