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About me

Gender Female
Occupation Editor, Bookkeeper, Writer, Homemaker, Mother of Sons (ages 17, 8)
Location United States
Introduction I am a woman in full middle age, living with my husband and sons in a small northern town. I have taught English and Spanish, planned weddings and designed websites; now I assist my husband with our website and work on non-fiction when I can.
Interests History, Cooking, Biography, Learning Piano, Maps, Herb gardening, Hiking in Cumbria near Ullswater (which I've never done but is the dream)
Favorite Movies Sense & Sensibility, Green Card, Sound of Music, Babette's Feast, Cinema Paradiso, Mrs. Miniver
Favorite Books Kathleen Raine Autobiographies, The Flower and the Nettle, Vita, The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Wuthering Heights, Made from Scratch, The Real Mrs. Miniver

What's the best time you've ever had licking stamps?

Paraguay, 1983. You didn't even have to lick them. The stamps were massive and the counters at the Correo had tiny basins full of water built right into them, so you could dip & paste with your fingers.