Gender	Female
Occupation	retired
Location	Los Alamos, NM, United States
Introduction	I am a retired English teacher-technical writer-bookseller
Interests	reading, opera, baseball cards and memorabilia, Belgian sheepdogs, gardening and trying to grow one freaking tomato that doesn't ultimately cost $525, bookselling, digital photography, women in the Westward Movement, odd roadside attractions, crumbling buildings, the Baltimore Orioles, cooking
Favorite movies	Fargo, The Gold Rush, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Animal House, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, West Side Story, Young Frankenstein, Stagecoach, Star Wars
Favorite music	modern opera, opera, classical music, musical theatre
Favorite books	Andersonville, East of Eden, Little Women, Everything Is Illuminated, The Shadow of the Wind, The Odyssey, Cold Comfort Farm, Blood Meridian, Suttree