Ilene Pattie

My blogs

About me

Gender Female
Occupation Retired
Location Garland, Texas, United States
Introduction 85-year-old woman with opinions on everything. An interesting life: not always easy but always exciting. Now on dialysis, but still taking interest in politics, religion, and all that is going on in the World. Lived in Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico,visited all the 48, but do not remember North Dakota, have not been to Hawaii or Alaska, but have been to Europe many times, also China and Thailand. My blogs are comments on life today as it relates to what I've read and observed in the past.
Interests Reading, Traveling, Wherever I go I find people and things which expand and/or contradict what I've read. Had breast cancer 24 years ago. Now I celebrate every day.
Favorite Movies My Fair Lady, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone With The Wind, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, Citizen Caine, The Third Man, Dr. Zhivago, The African Queen
Favorite Books Proust, Virginia Woolf, Tolstoy. Ann Tyler, Barbara Kingsalvor, David McCullough, History and Biography. books about real events and real people. And I write fiction!