Amy Bradstreet
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Maine, United States |
| Introduction | I'm the product of two very creative, former hippie parents who left Ohio in a VW bus in 1974 to settle in downeast Maine. A divorce, a revelation, many moves, homelessness and many homes and schools followed. Eventually, I ended up at UMaine in Orono. Alex is the product of a long line of self-reliant Mainers. His parents, of an earlier generation than my own, raised him on the Bradstreet homestead on the mid-coast. Academically accelerated, he attended a private school, was awarded the Eagle Scout honor and he hiked much of Maine's wilderness. He also landed at UMaine, where we met our second year of college. Alex and I have been together since 1990, marrying June 25, 1994. Two amazing kids, a daughter, 18 and a son, 15, who have been unschooled since birth. We lived 12 years near seven miles of Maine beach, and still have a 120+ year old home that we have refurbished and a compact organic garden containing over twenty-five trees on just .11 of an acre. We have lived on our 125-acre farm on a pond in central Maine, that has been in Alex's family since the late 18th century. |
| Interests | Autodidactism, whole-life learning, unschooling, education revolution, questioning paradigms, attachment parenting, natural parenting, connection parenting, interdependent families, alloparents, progressive politics, human rights, gender issues, civil rights, equal marriage, equality, lgbtqia+ issues, kyriarchy, intersectional feminism, systemic racism, classism, ableism, feminist motherhood, radical homemaker, radical homemaking, youth rights, sociology, psychology, ethics, body autonomy, privilege, body acceptance, fat acceptance, Health At Every Size, HAES, activism, breastfeeding, intactivism, genital integrity, social media, technology, ethics, handmade life, organic gardening and farming, raising livestock, food culture, sustainability, handcrafts, homemade, repurposing, recycling, folk art, Maine, photography, flickr, books, reading, music, science fiction, theater, choir, sewing, baking, cooking, bread making, preserving food, homesteading, disaster preparation, interior design, painting and drawing, organization, environment and sustainable living, local foods and farmer's markets, secular paganism, earth based spirituality, atheism, secular humanism, skepticism, history, politics, archaeology, anthropology, biology, geography, traveling, armchair traveling, homeopathy, herbs, medicinal plants, old houses, art history, costumes, Art Nouveau. |
| Favorite Movies | It's A Wonderful Life, The Color Purple, Star Trek(2009), Star Trek IV: Voyage Home, Orlando, Love Actually, The Station Agent, Chocolat, The King's Speech, Cousins, Coal Miner's Daughter, Sirens, The Sheltering Sky, Mirror Mask, The Fifth Element, Blade Runner, Sense and Sensibility, Be Kind Rewind, Punch Drunk Love, That Thing You Do, On Golden Pond, Moonstruck, True Romance, Alien/Aliens, Parenthood, Sixteen Candles, Psycho, Rear Window, Amelie, The Children of Men, Working Girl, The Piano, The Last of The Mohicans, Mary Poppins, Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, PlanesTrains&Automobiles, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Bringing Up Baby, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Roxanne, Enemy Mine, Some Like It Hot, About A Boy, Notting Hill, You Can't Take It With You, To Kill A Mockingbird, Paper Moon, Kinky Boots, Waking Ned Devine, Millions, Japanese Story, Star Trek(2009) Television-Doctor Who, Torchwood, Star Trek, The X-Files, Battlestar Glactica, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Absolutely Fabulous, Firefly, Doc Martin, West Wing, The Killing, House of Cards, Breaking Bad, Luther, Last Tango in Halifax, Foyle's War, Happy Valley |
| Favorite Music | Of Monsters and Men, Silversun Pickups, The Xx, Jeremy Messersmith, Loch Lomond, Bat For Lashes, Emiliana Torrini, The Bird And The Bee, Bjork, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Tears For Fears, Cyndi Lauper, Adele, Sia, Muse, The Killers, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Noah Gundersen, John Mark Nelson, Loreena McKennitt, Toni Childs, Diana Krall, Shirley Bassey, Nina Simone, Solomon Burke, Otis Redding, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Billy Holliday, Sarah Vaughn, Gladys Knight, Ray Charles, Tina Turner, Be Good Tanyas, Ray Lamongtagne, Puccini, Edith Piaf, Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Moby, trance, electronic, ambient, new wave, chill, folk, synthpop, soundtracks, Broadway. |
| Favorite Books | The Poisonwood Bible, The Grapes of Wrath, The Stand, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Animal Vegetable Miracle, Radical Homemaker, The Shell Seekers, Winter Solstice, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, The Martian Chronicles, The Secret Life of Bees, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Anne of Green Gables series, The Dark Is Rising series, Scarlet Feather, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, Mistress Bradstreet, Oryx And Crake, The Handmaid's Tale, Feed, The Hunger Games, Unwind, Everlost, The Giver/Gathering Blue/The Messenger, 1984, Vegetable Pleasures, Mosquito Coast, Chesapeake, Mother Earth Father Sky (Storyteller series), The Birth of Venus, The Red Tent, My Year Of Meats, All Over Creation, The Joy Luck Club, The Color Purple, The Good Earth, The Interview With A Vampire, Clan Of The Cave Bear (and Auel series), Neverwhere, The Graveyard Book, American Gods, Hotel New Hampshire, A Prayer For Owen Meaney |
What's the most amount of sand you've ever had in your swimming trunks?
I've had so much sand in my swimsuit before that I was left with no choice but to swim out to sea and strip it off and watch it float away.