Susan Martinez
My blogs
| Occupation | Conduit |
|---|---|
| Location | Bay Area, CA |
| Introduction | Hopwood Award winner, writer, Chicana mother of Gandhi, Chicana cousin of Little Richard, formerly in music business now in nonprofit health care |
| Interests | being in on or near water, wine and food, motorcycling, writing, music, travel, living fully, vanquishing artificial borders, winging it, beating cancer, getting to yes |
| Favorite movies | Like Water For Chocolate, To Kill A Mockingbird, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, My Life as a Dog, The Zero Effect, Being There, anything with Don Cheadle or Tom Hanks or John Cusack or Johnny Depp |
| Favorite music | Arsenio Rodriguez, Bruce, Elvis, Van, Dylan, Prince, Aretha, Marvin Gaye, Los Lobos, Ozomatli, Ali Farka Toure, Oumou Sangare, music of other lands esp. Cuba, Mexico and Africa, most anything with fiddle esp. Acadian and jazz |
| Favorite books | Anything by Berger, Twain, John Irving, Neruda, Marsh, Kingsolver, Marquez, Philip Pullman's Dark Materials series, and of course "The Little Engine That Could" |
When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
Ever-so-gently, with memory from my veins and the warmth of my soft breath