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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Watercolorist, author, village idiot
Location	Monmouth, Illinois, United States
Introduction	Some brag they're born/ Of princes and queens/ And therefore, of gods and goddesses./ I trace my genes/ Through teachers and deans/ And assorted odds and oddesses.
Interests	History, politics, art, Native American and other folklore, gardening, carpentry, home restoration, many other interests
Favorite movies	Casablanca, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Little Big Man, anything from Pixar/Lasseter, anything with Fred Astaire dancing in it, all the Marx Brothers flix, Kurosawa flix, Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns
Favorite music	Mozart, the Beatles, Big Band, sea chanteys, bluegrass (esp. Doc Watson & Jean Ritchie), Early Blues, Cole Porter & contemporaries
Favorite books	Archy's Lives of Mehitabel, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, The Joy of Cooking, The Agony and the Ecstasy, I Claudius, and whichever book I'm reading at the moment

You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics. What are you going to make?

I'm going to make whoopie. I think that's what I was told by that delightful and attractive young attorney. Or is it whoopie cushions?