Mandy, Sean, Brookie and Rosie
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| Location | Caronport, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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| Introduction | We're originally from Ontario but now call the prairies home. Sean teaches literature, Mandy is at home with the wee Ds, and Brook and Rosie fill their days with all sorts of kid stuff. |
| Interests | Hanging out together, playing outside, reading, watching stuff, snuggling, playing "I spy", chase and hide-and-seek ... |
| Favorite movies | M & S: The Constant Gardener, Batman Begins, The Dark Night, Dead Man Walking, Collateral, Seven, Mystic River, The Mission, The Machinist, L.A. Confidential, A Few Good Men, Princess Bride, Talented Mr. Ripley, Cinderella Man, A River Runs Through It, Spy Game, Schindler's List, Gattica, The Big Lebowski, Hitchcock (especially Rope, Rear Window, North by Northwest, and Dial 'M' for Murder), Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, The Sting, 21 Grams, The Shawshank Redemption, Ocean's Eleven, Sneakers, The Natural, Hoosiers, Unforgiven, About a Boy, Groundhog Day, Babette's Feast, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Usual Suspects, Moonstruck, High Fidelity, Band of Brothers (TV), Battlestar Gallactica (TV), Lost (TV), Seinfeld (TV), Curb Your Enthusiasm (TV) / B & R: Little Bear, Veggie Tales, Eight Below, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, A Bug's Life, Annie The Sound of Music, Harry Potter, Star Wars and Indiana Jones |
| Favorite music | U2, Mat Kearney, Caedmon's Call, Jars of Clay, BNL, Oasis, Green Day, Dizzy G, Dave Matthews Band, Elvis Costello, Fleetwood Mac, Five for Fighting, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, The Stones, R.E.M., Tom Petty, George Winston, Lenny Kravitz, Foo Fighters, Mark Knopfler, Great Big Sea, James Taylor, Audio Slave, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, CCR, The Cult, Dave Brubeck, Norah Jones, Bach, Amos Lee, Our Lady Peace, Tragically Hip, Fine Young Cannibals, Bruce Cockburn, INXS, Van Morrison, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, G&R, John Mellencamp, Sam Roberts, Sean LOVES John Prine and Mandy DOESN'T but Mandy likes Justin Timberlake and Sean doesn't. Brook and Rosie love U2, various musical soundtracks including Highschool Musical and Mama Mia, a wide selection of "Jesus Music" |
| Favorite books | All of Dostoevsky, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Rushdi's Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, Kafka's The Trial, Chesterton's Orthodoxy and The Man Who Was Thursday, Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories, Camus's The Stranger, Percy's The Second Coming, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, The Kite Runner, G.M. Hopkins' poetry, Lewis's Til We Have Faces, Browning's monologues, Augustine's Confessions, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Dickinson's poetry, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Bryson's A Walk in the Woods, Martel's Life of Pi, any Robert Munsch, Peek a Who (Rosie), Mole Music (Brook), Brown Bear (Rosie), any Franklin, and anything having to do with princesses |
The squish of mud between your toes; how would you live your life as a frog?
with lots of time to think