Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Retired from Teaching, but not from LIFE!!!
Location	Auburn, Heart of the South, United States
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Introduction	Recreational scholar, former high school and junior college English teacher. Animal lover (especially horses, dogs, and people), lives in the South, sometimes poet and essayist... "Ireland, Scotland, Britain, and Wales...I can hear those ancient voices calling..." Van Morrison from Celtic Heartbeat
Interests	Travel, theatre, art, music, vintage sports cars, antiques, horses, dogs, German dolls, wine, writing, drawing,and my family & home
Favorite movies	I Know Where I'm Going, Camelot, The Lion in Winter, Henry V (Brannagh),The Quiet Man, Shakespeare in Love, Lassie Come Home, National Velvet, Babette's Feast, Becket, Firelight, Out of Africa, The English Patient, Tess, Something Wicked This Way Comes, A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott and others), Dr. Zhivago, & so many more...
Favorite music	Celtic, Chopin, Mozart,The Beatles & Sir Paul, Sting, U2, Abbey Newton on cello, Windom Hill Winter Soltices (there have been many) Nightnoise, Black 47 (Irish Rock), Van Morrison, Johnny Cash, Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews, Joshua Bell on violin, show tunes and some opera now and then
Favorite books	Anything by Hardy or Dickens or Herriot, To Kill a Mockingbird, Complete Works of W.B.Yeats, Robert Burns, The Dubliners, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot,The Artis's Way by Julia Cameron, Thomas Merton, C.S. Lewis, and my current favorite literary magazine: Garden & Gun

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