Izzlebug
My blogs
| Location | United States |
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| Introduction | I am an older (middle-aged) person with a desire to make contact with others and share things I feel I have learned from life and to, hopefully, help make a difference in their lives, also. |
| Interests | My cats, reading, writing - prose and poetry, cooking/recipes, handcrafts, American History - especially around the time of the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, my boyfriend, my family, my blog. |
| Favorite Movies | Pride and Prejudice (with Colin Firth), Sense and Sensibility (with Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant), Shadowlands (with Anthony Hopkins), Calender Girls, Persuasion (with Amanda Root), First Wives Club, Sarah Plain and Tall (and the sequals), Fantasia (the old and the new), The Right Stuff, Cary Grant and Humphrey Bogart films, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Lilo and Stitch, National Treasure, Secondhand Lions, Tender Mercies, Anne of Green Gables (with Coleen Dewhurst), Henry V (with Kenneth Brannaugh), and most other Disney fare, Because I Said So and Somethings Gotta' Give both with Diane Keaton, all the Harry Potter films, musicals like The King and I, Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe, and Camelot, The Full Monty, Shall We Dance? -both versions, A Christmas Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Star Wars - all of them, Radio Days, A Patch of Blue, The Jackal with Sidney Poitier and Richard Gere. |
| Favorite Music | Classical, 60s folk and rock, anything in French (I'm trying to learn the language), international folk music, hymns, Christmas songs, certain love songs, Renaissance music - mostly vocal, trumpet and oboe solos, light jazz, lullabyes. |
| Favorite Books | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Little Women, Frances Hodgeson Burnett, Jack Chalker, Robert Jordan, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Jane Austin, biography, history, peotry, science fiction, and Harry Potter. |