Nancy
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Retired but working hard |
| Location | Beaverton, Oregon, United States |
| Introduction | Though I started out majoring in English at Beloit College and later at Western Washington University, I was just as interested in history, theatre, and music. If I had mastered math I might have done something in the sciences too. Was married to Fred, but it didn't last and so I was a single mom in Bellingham WA. Something of a liberation to move to Portland OR 20 yrs ago. I've been in business as well as teaching and freelance editing, and am now enjoying being Reader and running this blog. I'm also something of an activist for environmental and social justice causes, and would be glad to introduce you to CREDO Mobile, which offers you a lot for your cell phone money including contributing to such organizations as Amnesty International and Earthjustice rather than to the right-wing pets of AT&T and Verizon. P.S. Someday soon I'll put up a picture of myself, and will master posting JPG images--but don't hold your breath!♠ |
| Interests | My work as First Reader; my children and grandchildren; John Milton's poetry and prose; Renaissance literature in addition to Milton; English language: Old, Middle, and Early Modern; classical languages; Biblical literature; modern poetry; cooking; gardening where possible; horses (the impossible dream at this point); the sciences; computers (ugh!); music, music, music |
| Favorite Movies | The African Queen; The Philadelphia Story; Coming to America; Pride and Prejudice (with Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier); The Parent Trap (with Lindsay Lohan, not Hayley Mills); The Long Shot (for the musical freestyle dressage sequence); King Ralph; Julius Caesar (with Marlon Brando); any and all versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream; any stage production of Shakespeare except a modern-dress, stripped-down Hamlet |
| Favorite Music | Mozart opera; Verdi opera; piano music that I have played, e.g. easy Beethoven, Schubert, Scarlatti; Beethoven's last quartets; Bach's St Matthew Passion |
| Favorite Books | I love the classics, but also:; novels of John Irving; novels of Margaret Atwood; novels of Alexander McCall Smith; thrillers by Steve Berry, A.P. Hartley and the like; Two I've recently enjoyed: The Swan Thieves, by Elizabeth Kostova; Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, by Beth Hoffman |