Abby Freeborn
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Wordsmith |
| Location | Wilmington, North Carolina |
| Introduction | I'm a planet-loving gypsy addicted to moving air, visual space, and big salt water. I was Maine-ly raised among the woods, fields and tidal creeks of Casco Bay until my father sent me to "a top notch women's college outside of New England to get an MRS degree and make intelligent grandchildren." Goucher College gave me a superb education and I hung out in Maryland doing what was expected of me for 34 years. That done, I ran away to Hawai`i, where my heart found its home. I now live nine months in North Carolina and sofa surf or pet sit in Hawai`i every winter to be with dear friends, work wardrobe for the opera season and refill my cup with aloha. I love to experience new places, new cultures, here or abroad. I've visited most of the 50 states, Greece, France England, Canada and Mexico and spent extended time in Germany, Spain and Turkey (my favorite for it's beauty, diversity, and layer upon layer of cross-cultural history). But one of these days I mean to settle down in Hawai`i and write and write and write! |
| Interests | People and their stories, writing, music, singing, daydreaming/"meditation," gardening, sailing, making mobiles, reading, puttering, and doing nothing. |
| Favorite movies | The Red Violin, Gone with the Wind, Cinema Paradiso, A Man and a Woman, Dirty Dancing, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, South Pacific, The King and I, Out of Africa, Schindler's List, The Big Chill, The King's Speech, The Whale Rider, Papa Mau, too many to list. |
| Favorite music | Verdi and Puccini operas, piano concerti by Rachmaninoff - Prokofiev - Grieg - Tchaikovsky, anything by Beethoven, or Mozart, or Prokofiev, or Faure, or Rutter, or Rodgers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan, or The Seldom Scene, or Doc Watson, or The Beatles, or Peter Paul and Mary, or Joan Baez, or Judy Collins, or Laurie Anderson, or Dave Brubeck, or Getz/Gilberto, or Ella Fitzgerald, or Louis Armstrong, or Frank Sinatra, or Big Bands, most Motown, IZ, slack key, and most Hawaiian music, too many to list. |
| Favorite books | Lynd Ward's GOD'S MAN, Kahlil Gibran's THE PROPHET, anything by Jane Austin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Barbara Kingsolver - too many to list.... |