firedupandspeakingout
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Newspaper journalist, editor, poet, writing coach |
| Location | Northeast, United States |
| Introduction | Feature writer for Northwest Connecticut newspapers, columnist, theater critic, book editor, media consultant, writing coach, poet ... |
| Interests | Books, theater, music, ballet, poetry readings, art exhibits, family, politics, old houses, country drives, leaf peeping, |
| Favorite movies | As Good As It Gets, Somethings Gotta Give, Out of Africa, Children of a Lesser God, Pretty Woman, Chocolate, Something To Talk About, Chicago, A Chorus Line, One True Thing, Riding in Cars With Boys, Dirty Dancing, When Harry Met Sally, On Golden Pond, Same Time Next Year, Notting Hill, Iron Jawed Angels, |
| Favorite music | Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, 1940s, Tony Bennett, Elvis Presley, 1950s rock 'n roll, doo wop |
| Favorite books | Favorite authors fiction: Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Berg, Anita Shreve, Pat Conroy, Jodi Picoult, Pete Hamill, Richard Russo. A few favorite books: Honolulu, The Secret Life of Bees, Five Quarters of the Orange, North River, Time and Again, Empire Falls, Prodigal Summer, Shanghai Girls. Nonfiction: I knew A Woman, A Wider Giving-Women Writing after a Long Silence, News of a Kidnapping, The White Blackbird, Why Sinatra Matters. Memoir: All Over But The Shoutin', A Drinking Life, The Liar's Club, Sleeping Arrangements, A Place in the Country, Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship, Poetry: Details of Flesh: Cortney Davis, What We Carry: Dorianne Laux |