Janet McConnaughey

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Communications or Media
Location New Orleans, LA, United States
Introduction Learned to talk, most likely, on an Army base in Okinawa. Learned to read and swim within a year of moving from there to Santa Rosa, Calif. Left there at 7 for the East Coast; grew up in Fairfax County, Va. Now live in New Orleans.
Interests news, words, books, poetry, verse, novels, children's lit, cats, canoes, kayaks, singing, photography
Favorite Movies Shakespeare in Love, Zorro (heck, anything with Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), the Marx brothers, the Lord of the Rings trilogy
Favorite Music Bach, Mozart, Faure's Requiem, the Beatles (especially Rubber Soul and Revolver), Peter, Paul and Mary, ... often whatever the chorus I'm in is singing
Favorite Books too many to list any

Your bow is not broken but you've run out of arrows. How can you fake being a bard?

With my doublet worn over my mail, / I ask Mr. Ed for some tail. / "Just the hairs," I amend. / "Once they're strung, I'll ascend / To your saddle and sing like a whale."