Gender	Female
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Journalist/photographer/history and genealogy researcher
Location	Clayton, Ohio, United States
Introduction	A jill of many trades and master of few, dubbed an "honorary blonde" although I've been a brunette all my life, deviant and warped imagination. I'm nosy and friendly and I like to make people feel comfortable. I should have been a Grande Dame southern lady serving strong Creole coffee in demitasse cups with silver spoons and serving Spinach Madeleine at DAR luncheons. Instead, I sit in front of my laptop and tap away!
Interests	Music from the sacred to the profane, Barbie and friends dioramas/tableaux, cemeteries, ghosts and hauntings, trivia, southern and Cajun foodways and culture, antiques, the art of recycling silverplated items
Favorite movies	Casablanca, Ride The High Country, My Favorite Wife, Driving Miss Daisy, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Green Mile, The Green Pastures, The Last Picture Show The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Moulin Rouge (1952 version,)Now and Then, Paper Moon, Peggy Sue Got Married, Ruthless People, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, A Streetcar Named Desire, Splendor in the Grass, Steel Magnolias, Suddenly, Last Summer, The Wizard of Oz, Little Miss Sunshine, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Goodbye Columbus, The Graduate, Elizabethtown, Paper Clips - I could go on forever! I love Turner Classic Movies!
Favorite music	Again, too numerous to mention but here's a sampler - The Who/Quadrophenia, Beach Boys, Jackson Browne, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello Alejandro Escovedo, Chrissy Hynde/Pretenders, Nick Lowe, Kirsty MacColl, Shane MacGowan/Pogues, Laura Nyro Robert Pollard/Guided by Voices, Mark Lindsay/Paul Revere and the Raiders, Boz Scaggs, Joe South, Bruce Springsteen, Dale Walton, Neil Young, Dire Sraits ad infinitum.
Favorite books	Richard Bradford – Red Sky at Morning, Gina Barreca - anything!, Victoria Mary Clarke - Angel in Disguise?, E.B. White - Charlotte's Web, Shane Bernard - anything, Marcelle Bienvenu – “Who’s Your Mama, Are You Catholic And Can You Make a Roux?” – the quintessential Cajun cookbook with stories, Carl Brasseux, James Lee Burke – Dave Robichaux novels, Laurie Colvin – Home Cooking, William Faulkner – “A Rose For Emily” in 11th grade English had me hooked, F. Scott Fitzgerald – anything, especially the Basil and Josephine short stories. “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” is something I’ve always related to, Ernest Hemingway – everything, especially the Nick Adams short stories, Tony Hillerman – anything, Stephen King – The Green Mile, It, Pet Sematary, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Bag of Bones, etc., short stories including “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Body,” Roger Kahn – The Boys of Summer, Sharyn McCrumb – anything, Tova Mirvis – The Ladies Auxiliary, Flannery O’Connor – absolutely anything!, Dorothy Parker - anything, Sylvia Plath – anything, River Road Recipes – the best cookbook ever!

The love potion you made tastes terrible. How will you drink it?

Quickly. And with a Peppermint Schnapps chaser.