Mustardseed
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Introduction | I'm one of the unwashed masses, those aspiring writers with too many degrees, too much debt, and not nearly enough actual job skills. |
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| Interests | reading, writing, Jesus, hockey, fashion, gourmet cooking, veganism, politics, humanitarian causes.... |
| Favorite movies | Where do I start? Jane Austen adaptations, Hard Core Logo, Eastern Promises, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the Village, the Guardian, Hairspray, King Arthur, Amazing Grace, the Sweet Hereafter, Chronicles of Narnia, the X-Men trilogy, Amistad, Ghosts of Missisippi, the Last Sin Eater, Master and Commander, History of Violence, anything by Atom Egoyan, Beautiful Girls, Dance Me Outside, anything by Deepa Mehta, Glory Road, Remember the Titans, or really anything with football, Shadowlands, anything by Patricia Rozema... how can you tell I'm Canadian? |
| Favorite music | the Killers, gospel, Jewel, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Susan Enan, Pavarotti, Natalie McMaster, Leahy, Daughtry, Dan Hill, '90's grunge, Great Big Sea, classic rock, opera, Sarah Brightman.... |
| Favorite books | the Bible, Hereodotus, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Lawrence Hill, Michael Ondaatje, Robertson Davies, Catherine Bush, Shani Mootoo, Francine Rivers, Marlo Schalesky, Lady Mary Wroth, Dennis Bock, Deanne Gist, Kirin Desai, Paulo Coehlo, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Meredith, ee cummings, TS Eliot, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman,Philip Yancy, Grace Livingston Hill, first nations literature, CS Lewis, GK Chesterton, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, John Donne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wilkie Collins, Aphra Behn, Milton, George Eliot Clarke, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, VS Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, biographies, autobiographies, literary theory, cookbooks, to give it a start. I choose living spaces by virtue of bookshelf space. I'd live without television or running water before I'd live without books. |
Try making up the rules to a game where you tie knots in a yo-yo string just to see if you can get them out:
Every time you undo a knot, you get to go shopping.