emmy
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Location | NJ/NY, United States |
| Introduction | Some of my dearest friends named me Emmy. My parents named me Melissa. I try to be foolish enough each day to look for the light in the darkness. And sometimes, I find it. Mostly I find it in the bright shining eyes of the children I am blessed to work with—and in the forest among the trees. It is to these that I look when the path is just a bit to curved and winding… |
| Favorite movies | It's A Wonderful Life, anything involving the Marx Bros., Pirates of the Caribbean, Clue, You've Got Mail/Shop Around the Corner, Love Actually, Dogma, An Ideal Husband, Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| Favorite books | Moral Man Immoral Society, Leaving Church, Lamb, The Sex Lives of the Saints, Old Turtle, Judges, The Red Tent |
Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?
My people (ha!) will make my statue out of plastic grocery bags, because I think there are more of them on the planet than any other item. We will be commemorating the day when the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow (European--African swallows are non-migratory) was accurately determined.