My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Female
Occupation	writer, editor, retired
Location	St. Peter, MN and the Twin Cities, MN, United States
Interests	old fences and barns, people on buses, things left for pondering, the acquisition of marks on my passport, violin music, out of the way bars, driving
Favorite movies	Fannie and Alexander, Beautiful Girls, Walk the Line, The Dark Knight, Coyote Ugly, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Crash, Little Miss Sunshine, 310 to Yuma/American Psycho...Christian Bale, yes, most anything Hitchcock
Favorite music	Tom Waits, Nirvana - everything but especially 1993/Live MTV Unplugged, Pearl Jam's Wish List, the Bodeans, the Gear Daddies, Cowboy Junkies, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Billy McLaughlin, Irish music, John Lennon, the Beatles, Subdudes, the Pixies, my old Kris Kristofferson albums/Rita Coolidge.
Favorite books	The Necessity of Empty Places by Paul Gruchow, The Riders by Tim Winton, Montana 1942, Water for Elephants, Anna Karenina, You Mean I'm not Crazy Lazy or Stupid--Women and ADD, any book of poems by Mary Oliver, Under the Tuscan Sun, The Solace of Open Spaces and other books by Gretel Ehrlich, Collected Stories of Raymond Carver, Wallace Stegner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor and Kate Chopin that I read and re-read for the finer points of telling a story, Shel Silverstein's poetry books shared with my grandchildren.

Your bow is not broken but you've run out of arrows. How can you fake being a bard?

What do you mean fake