Gender	Female
Location	Bostonish, Massachusetts, United States
Introduction	lapsed writer, toddler teacher, surgical scheduler, literary magazine editor, doodler and designer, non-profit beggar, nanny and babysitter, obsessor/compulsor and Master of children's literature (according to Simmons College)
Interests	Art, Arts and Crafts movement, poetry, children's literature, jazz, soul, choral singing, English literature, languages, cheese, bouncy balls, cider, psychology, botany
Favorite music	Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan (especially later albums), bossa nova that doesn't suck, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Peggy Lee, Bach, Babaloo, funky soul, jazzy funk, chamber music, bluegrass
Favorite books	The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life, Bel Canto, Feed, As I Lay Dying, Uncle Shelby's ABZ's, The Collected Poems of e. e. cummings, Arlene Sardine, Carver: A Life in Poems, Silent to the Bone, Micheal Rosen's Sad Book, Harriet the Spy, P.G. Wodehouse books that do not describe golf in detail.

That can't really be a fish you're standing on, can it?

No, it's a porpoise. That's okay, it's a common mistake.