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Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Photo Stylist, Freelance Book Editor, and Occasional Babysitter
Location	Central Europe
Introduction	A bibliophile, an "analog girl in a digital world", an organic 70's baby stamped indelibly by 80's bourgeois pop culture. African-American by birth and blood, a global citizen by heart and circumstance. Have a penchant for large 70's style sunglasses just like Jackie O. and my pistol-packing, cobbler making, big car driving, Baptist raised mama. A sister, daughter, partner, and friend. Love God, gut-busting belly laughs, whole foods, red wine, & doing the "Electric Slide. Hope you'll sign up & enjoy the ride with me as I craft this E-zine just for you!
Interests	Cooking, Performing Arts, Current Events, Terrace Gardening (I got "Cornflowers", Tai Chi, Film, Museum Exhibits, Pop Culture, Politics, Volunteerism, and intensive-think tank style study of Christian Scripture, even if that last one does sound like an oxymoron.
Favorite Movies	Under The Tuscan Sun, Carmen, Siesta, Betty Blue, Isn't She Great?, Sideways, Talk To Her, The Color Purple, Hero, The Joy Luck Club, Babette's Feast, Chocolate, El Amor Brujo, and anything starring Diane Keaton or ...Madea
Favorite Music	Classical (Think Chopin & Arvo Pärt), Alternative Jazz/Pop hybrids (Little Dragon, Esthero, Beady Belle), Jazz (from Duke Ellington on down to Dianne Reeves and Lizz Wright), and my beloved Vintage Funk (Parliament, Sly Stone) & Soul (Aretha, Stevie, Diana, Sytlistics, Teena, Donnie, Minnie Ripperton, Rufus) and the Neo soldiers who carry their torches today (Jill Scott, Erykah, Lalah, Ledisi, Raphael Saadiq & pre-fame Amy <R.I.P>, I live for good old fashioned singer songwriters like Carol King, Laura Nyro, James Taylor, also love commercial 80's r&b, "Debarge" or "Champagne", anyone?
Favorite Books	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Butterfly by Paul Loewen, The Art of War by Sun Tsu, The Bible, and bits and pieces of Feminist, soul searching tidbits from Alice Walker, J. California Cooper, Erica Jong, Anais Nin, and Kate Chopin thrown in for good measure.