The Pigeon Bride
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer/Mom/Teacher |
| Location | San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States |
| Introduction | Educated as a poet by the ivoriest of the ivory towers that would admit me, I have been somewhat waylaid on my path to a Pulitzer by my teaching career and my children. Geez, the need to earn money to feed myself and those little punks is severely cramping my style. But I still carry a notebook in my purse so that I can compulsively pluck the shining fruit that sprouts unbidden in my brain. Because I'm so brilliant. Like just today, my friend fell down at a restaurant called Bumble. And I noticed that it rhymes with stumble. See? Just think what the world might have lost had I not had my notebook with me. Someday, those notes I took will turn into a poem. And the lone and level sands will stretch far away. Look on my works, ye mighty, and DESPAIR! My therapist says delusions of grandeur are a symptom of mania. Or I could be really talented. Like, fer realz. We'll have to see how I feel once I am titrated up on my meds. |
| Interests | Writing, reading, napping, eating, sewing, napping, swimming, nursing my baby, cuddling my toddler, and taking naps. |
| Favorite movies | The Blues Brothers. |
| Favorite music | Bluegrass. Blues. Seventies Rock. Jazz standards and Big Band era hits. American Cosmic Music, a la Gram Parsons. |
| Favorite books | Hamlet, Gone with the Wind, Swamplandia, Little Women, Fahrenheit 451, The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Beyond the River (an account of the Underground RR in Ohio), Grimms' fairy tales, Anne Sexton's poetry, James Wright's poetry, Let's Pretend This Never Happened. |