Barbara Sher

My blogs

Gender	Female
Occupation	writer, speaker
Location	New York City, NY, U.S. Outlying Islands
Introduction	We brush our dreams off the table as being impossible and then we say, 'I see no dreams here.' But there has never been a dream that you can't have--not the heart of it, the part you love most.
Interests	geography, history, writing, reading, travel, and trying to see that talent is not wasted.
Favorite Movies	Hear My Song, Blues Brothers, Slapshot, Cold Comfort Farm, Semi-Tough, Seven Samurai, Himalaya, 8-Mile, Strictly Ballroom, Animal House.
Favorite Music	Franco Corellli in Turandot, the trio in Der Rosenkavalier, Callas, Beethoven's 3rd symphony & Quartet in A minor opus 132, Mozart's last symphonies
Favorite Books	Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, The Slayers of Moses by Susan Handelman, anything by Mildred Cable or Owen Lattimore or John Keay, Magic Mountain and Faustus by Thomas Mann, Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, Remembrance of Things Past by Proust, The Mirror of Language by Colish, Magister Ludi by Hesse, Ulysses by Joyce, Mating by Rush, Little Dorrit by Dickens, Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley, Mimesis by Auerback, Modernism ed by Bradbury and McFarlane, The Old Way by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Discovery of France by Graham Robb, Mssr. Teste by Paul Valery, The Final Solution by Chabon

Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?

whittling with soap. It's easier and the results come faster and if you screw up, so what?