Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Artist / illustrator
Location	Michigan, United States
Introduction	I love making art. I love my family, Jonathan, husband of 32 years this May, 5 great children and 3 great kids-in- law, one terrific grandson, and my mom and dad. I was raised in Mi. with a love and appreciation of nature. We lived in Dearborn and later, Livonia when I was younger, but had a cottage "up north" on Lake Charlevoix. That was my heaven. We moved to Charlevoix when I was in 7th grade. When I graduated I lived in Ann Arbor for 18 years. Through college, having kids, and then we moved back to Charlevoix. I love both Charlevoix and Ann Arbor and wish I could afford a place in both towns. I have been doing art for a long time, but about 12 years seriously trying to " get it out there". I have a web site which is www.kathrynmays.com so check it out sometime. I love to learn new things and hear new ideas. And yet I have a hard time with change. Like my kids moving away, or moving to a different house or a loved one being sick and changing.
Interests	my family, Art of all kinds, music, children's books, nature and the preserving of it, other people's stories, justice, peace, good friends.
Favorite movies	I have many favorite movies. I would say some are, On Golden Pond, Love Actually, Much Ado about nothing, The Queen, Braveheart, Departures, Tam po po, it's complicated, Calender Girls, the yaya sisterhood,The King's Speech, anything with Meryl Streep in it.
Favorite music	I also like a lot of different kinds of music. I love, the singer/songwriters, carol king, James Taylor, Jim Croce, I love, five for fighting, Paul Simon, Ladysmith Blackmambazo, Miriam Mckabe, Corrine Bailey Rae, Donny McClurkin, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, Janis Joplin, Melissa Etheridge, Yo Yo Ma, most all Cello music, and broadway musical soundtracks like, the color purple, les miserable', and The phantom of the opera and Rent.
Favorite books	I'm really into children's books- some of those that are my fav's are, Paddle to the Sea, Winnie the Pooh, Grandfather Twighlight, Some more "grown up material" would be The Shell Seekers, The Natural History of the senses by Diane Akerman, Velocity by Dean Koontz, The traveling funeral(can't remember the whole title) and biographies of people.

Whoops! Your tongue is now a magnet. Whatever will you use for silverware?

My fingers like alot of people in the world still do. Also, wooden chopsticks would work.