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Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Writer, Singer, Storyteller
Location Vancouver, BC, Canada
Introduction My home page: reisastone.com. The graphic is the coat of arms of my Ukrainian province, Haletzia. I protect crows & they protect me. I read, I write, I sing, I tell stories, I draw, I dance, I laugh a lot. I have diverse friends: musicians, writers, artists, avid readers and animal lovers.
Interests Horses, dogs, bunnies, animal rescue, wildlife, forests, swimming, dancing, parks with swings, big trees anywhere they may be, cooking, comedy, New Orleans music and culture
Favorite Movies The Apostle, The Fighting Temptations, 101 Dalmations, Meet Joe Black, Walk the Line, Apocalypse Now (because "Heart of Darkness" was written by a Ukrainian), Fight Club, Fargo, Taxi Driver, Out of Sight, Funny Girl, The Crow, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Heat. I love anything with Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Redford, Al Pacino, Mel Brooks, Tommy Lee Jones, Tyler Perry or Robert Duvall. My favorite TV shows are The Vicar of Dibley and Frasier.
Favorite Music I am a Gospel singer. I also love Soul, Bluegrass and Appalachian mountain music, R&B, musical theatre, Blues. Barbra Streisand, Linda Lay, the Isaacs, Twinkie Clark, Jevetta Steele & the young pastor Calvin Bernard Rhone are my favorite singers. I would give anything to be a fraction of the singer/songwriter Twinkie Clark is. Come on, tell me you don't wish you wrote "Overdose of the Holy Ghost"!
Favorite Books The Temple of My Familiar, Chosen By A Horse, Water for Elephants, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. Anything by Janet Evanovich, James Lee Burke, Dave Barry, Cesar Millan, Patricia Cornwell and Stuart Kaminsky, R. M. Rilke, Mary Oliver. Prince of Tides, The Black Stallion, The Horse Whisperer (but the movie was a disappointment).

When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?

My science teacher defied the school board re: dissecting frogs. I loved him. Years later, I wrote him & told him.