*Mandie*

My blogs

• To Love a Rose

Blogs I follow

• [ THE DRIFTER and the GYPSY ]
• a sort of homecoming
• adoption
• Adoption Memoirs
• Adoption Musings
• Adventures in Anderson Land
• Ask a Korean!
• Blake Mycoskie's Blog
• blog
• Bringing baby sister home
• Chasing Megersa
• Christian's Beach
• Crazy Thing Called Life
• EMILY CLAYTON
• Faithful Provisions
• Gleaming Gloat
• Habeshahouse
• Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed
• Here We Go Again!!
• Hope
• Hyperbole and a Half
• It's a Cyster Thing
• Kara's Party Ideas | Kids Birthday Party Themes
• Kenzie Poo
• Life is Serious Business
• Life With the MonSter
• Little Brown Pen
• Love Letters to Layla
• Mullins Party of Five
• News and Updates
• No More Counting The Cost
• our one piece life - International adoption, parenting issues and family life
• Our Subtle Chaos
• Plastic Neon's shared items in Google Reader
• Right Aligned Mind
• Sensei-tional!
• Seriously?
• Solid Rock
• Spearmint Baby
• Sprout
• Sprout
• Suri's Burn Book
• The Hipster Home Experience!
• The Infertility Voice
• The Journey I Didn't Expect
• The M and E Story
• TOMS Shoes: Shoes for Tomorrow
• Twitter / plasticneon
• Tyler Andrews Photography
• WATERSHED
• WATERSHED
• With Every Heartbeat
• ☼ Life's a Beach ☼

About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	musician/writer
Location	Branson, Missouri, United States
Introduction	I'm an Irish dual-citizen - a writer, musician, and artist dealing with infertility, international adoption, and loss due to cancer. I try to be as open and honest about my life journey as possible in hopes that my experiences with both sadness and joy will somehow help others.
Interests	Art (photography, painting). Cooking. Coffee! My husband and family and friends. Film. Music. Dance. Writing.
Favorite Movies	All Star Wars. All Lord of the Rings. Hellboy I and II. All X-Men. Anything by Wes Anderson or Sofia Coppola or Guillermo del Toro.
Favorite Music	Being a musician myself, I love just about anything except country and screamo rock. You can check out my band at www.thebeautifullybroken.com!
Favorite Books	The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner). Night (Weisel). Cannery Row (Steinbeck). 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Neruda). Beloved (Morrison).

What's the earliest you've gotten up to watch cartoons and what did you see?

When we were younger, my middle sister (I have two younger sisters) would get up at 5 a.m. to watch "Sailor Moon". I was NEVER a morning person (still am not!); so, I would get up several hours later to watch "Spiderman" - I always loved comic book heroes (still do!).