Gretel Young
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer/Artist |
| Location | Columbus, Ohio, United States |
| Introduction | I am your basic peacenik idealist, though I greatly respect those whose opinions differ from mine - especially if they can express their views eloquently. I am a writer, so I value other wordsmiths. I am also a parent, and I respect other parents who are doing their best. Not easy. It's hard to sum myself up in a bio like this. Tough to create a nuanced portrait in writing. Perhaps the most important thing to know about me is that I am comfortable with myself and happy with my very normal life. |
| Interests | Reading, hiking, gardening, good conversation, cooking, animals,woodcarving, movies, music, sarcastic clever people who are also kind, hanging with my kids and much, much more! |
| Favorite movies | American Beauty, Bronx Tale, Babe, Babel, Crash, okay so the alphabetical thing isn't working for me. Thin Red Line, Higher Learning, Master and Commander, The 300, Gladiator, Boogie Nights, Lars and the Real Girl, The Usual Suspects, Heist, Heat, House of Games, Homicide, Things Change, Bladerunner, Forty Year Old Virgin, Dan in Real Life, and many, many more! |
| Favorite music | Resisters, Beatles, They Might be Giants, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, ELO, Chic Corea, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Talking Heads, Natalie Merchant, Suzanne Vega, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Buddy Guy, Joe Louis Walker, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Prince, New Black Jesus, and many, many more! |
| Favorite books | How 'bout authors. Ondaatje, Garcia-Marques, Faulkner, Michael Cunningham, Robert Hass, Mark Strand, Amy Gerstler, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, Charles Simic, Alice Munro, Francine Prose, Patricia Cornwell, Caroline Alexander, Rick Bass, Richard Ford, Natalie Goldberg, Ursula K. Leguin, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Erin Hunter, William Steig, Kevin Henkes, and again, many, many, more. |
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