Karen Brown Letarte

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Gender Female
Industry Education
Location Morrisville, NC, United States
Introduction A true Gemini, I am the product of 2 cultures: the American South (on my mom's side) and the Anishinaabe nation. I'm a librarian, a CEO, and a mom to a teenager and a greyhound. Passions include cooking, fitness, wild rice, chocolate, fine cuisine, bbq (NC-style, of course) and hot buttered biscuits.
Interests Cooking, Latin American and Iberian language, culture and cuisine, fitness (addicted to Cathe.com), kickboxing, reading, movies.
Favorite Movies Smoke Signals, Big Fish, Love Actually, Little Miss Sunshine, LOTR, Fried Green Tomatoes, Stranger Than Fiction, Late for Dinner, Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood, Cinderella Man, Bend it Like Beckham, Blades of Glory, Boycott, Whale Rider, Glory Road, Hotel Rwanda, Foul Play, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ghost, Talladega Nights, A League of Their Own, Clueless, Forrest Gumo, Men in Black, Minority Report, Napoleon Dynamite, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Over the Hedge, Rudy, Radio, The Village, Stand By Me
Favorite Music Serious art music, Motown, classic jazz vocals, Brazilian music (Gilberto Gil, Milton Nacimento, Jorge Ben, Beth Carvalho, Gal Costa, Maria Bethania, Caetano Veloso), 70's & 80's pop, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Eva Cassidy, Enya, Gipsy Kings, Manhattan Transfer, Allison Krause, Cheap Trick, IZ...
Favorite Books The Mercy of Thin Air, The Eight, The Outlander Series, HP, El Cuarto de Atras, The Painted Drum, Anything by Louise Erdrich, The Opposite of Fate, Ask Your Guides, His Dark Materials, The Repeating Island, Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, Yellow Raft in Blue Water, The Anne of Green Gables Books, Sabriel, The Dark Lord of Derkholm....