Alma
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Student / Writer / Photographer / Painter |
| Location | Denver, Colorado, United States |
| Introduction | As a three year old, I wore red cowboy hats and wrote stories in the margins. As a five year old, I dug for clay under swingsets and jumped from slides with "Wonder Woman" as my battle cry. My dad died when I was six because he drank too much. My Mama's heart broke when I was 26; I couldn't fix it. I've spent my life in Denver, living and loving. I'm a restless spirit who is finally seeing the peace in every day--who finally loves where she is and who she is just because it is what it is. I'm a human being. I make mistakes. I keep learning, though, and try to teach others what I know to be true. This is just me--in all my ugly/beautiful glory. I've got some stories to tell. |
| Interests | words, reading, writing, parks, groping nonchalantly, passion in all its forms, lotion, freesia, peonies, orchids, live music, dancing, yoga, pilates, kickboxing, traveling, learning (formally and from the school of hard knocks), horses, primates (esp lemurs), plays, photography, candles, frogs, stained glass, being crafty, hot baths, knitting, crocheting, making jewelry, painting, sculpture, politics, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Tim Cantor, cooking, homemade bread with really great soup, cookies, cherry limes, cherry Luden's cough drops, running, pink, oceans, mountains, hiking, Nature, Colorado history, warm towels, water, hot cocoa, handmade paper, languages, interpersonal communication, mediation, gardening, movies, laughing, rain, thunderstorms, hail, walking, thinking too much, science, anthropology, gender studies, psychology, happiness, love, postsecret.com, conservation, ecology, human rights, mojitos, being lazy, velvet, color, being engaged (no, not in the marriage sense of the word...sheesh), Madagascar, smelling good, interior design, apples, bugs, chili cheese fries, cheese, white wine, leaves, autumn, pumpkins, Orbitz gum, chocolate, puppies, horses, fuzzy things, hats, snowshoeing, roadtrips, rocking chairs, smiling, sleeping when I'm not wearing my insomniac hat, waffles, magnetic poetry kits, gadgets, blogging, banana charlottes, gummy bears, lemon zest luna bars, jumping off cliffs, breathing deep, KBCO, kites, Big Sur, spirituality |
| Favorite Movies | Once, The Namesake, 12 Monkeys, 21 Grams, Amelie, American Beauty, An Affair to Remember, Beetlejuice, blue car, Breakfast Club, Bringing Out the Dead, Broken English, Broken Flowers, Closer, Crash, Delicatessan, Diggers, Dirty Dancing, Dirty Pretty Things, Eat Drink Man Woman, Eternal Sunshine, Fight Club, Garden State, Gattaca, Glory, Good Night & Good Luck, Grease, Happy Accidents, In America, Jerry Maguire, Junebug, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Kolya, Little Women, Matchstick Men, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Meet Joe Black, Mind the Gap, Motorcycle Diaries, Next Stop Wonderland, Office Space, Out of Sight, Pleasantville, Raising Arizona, Ruby in Paradise, Say Anything, Sideways, Sliding Doors, Snatch, Stand by Me, The Brothers McMullen, The Good Girl, The Graduate, The Matador, The Shawshank Redemption, The Squid and the Whale, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Three Seasons, Walk the Line, When Harry Met Sally, Wit, You Can Count on Me |
| Favorite Music | Beth Orton, Priscilla Anh, Charlotte Martin, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers/The Refreshments, Ryan Adams, Guster, Aimee Mann, Ellis Paul |
| Favorite Books | Moon Palace-Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude-Paul Auster, Fat Pig-Neil Labute, Housekeeping-Marilynne Robinson, The Awakening-Kate Chopin, Entrekin-Will Entrekin, Through the Safety Net-Charles Baxter, The Egg and Other Stories-Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio-Sherwood Anderson, Blindness-Jose Saramago, Cod-Mark Kurlansky, The Pillowman-Martin McDonagh, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Jack Gilbert, Naked-David Sedaris, The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald, Snows of Kilimanjaro-Hemingway, Franny & Zooey-Salinger, Catcher in the Rye-Salinger, Frozen-Bryony Lavery, A Million Little Pieces-James Frey, Native Son-Richard Wright, The Cripple of Inishmaan-Martin McDonagh, Proof-David Auburn, The Great Divide-Gary Ferguson, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, On Writing Well-Zinsser, Pablo Neruda, Remote Feed-David Gilbert, Maya Angelou, Lucky-Alice Sebold, Three Tall Women-Edward Albee, Speaking with the Angel-Nick Hornby, Night-Elie Wiesel, Mark Twain, HD, The Namesake-Jhumpa Lahiri, Lolita-Nabokov, Autobiography of a Face-Grealy, Shel Silverstein, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona-Ryan Harty, Desert Solitaire-Edward Abbey, The Trouble with You Is-Susan Jackson Rodgers, Kahlil Gibran, In a Sun-burned Country-Bill Bryson, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek-Annie Dillard, Robinson Jeffers, The Sound and the Fury-William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, Dorothy Parker, Angels in America-Tony Kushner, Sam Shepard, Sarah Kane, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs-Klosterman, Sky Burial-Xinran |
What kind of tape is best for creating a sculpture?
duct tape, of course