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Gender	Female
Occupation	Mothering
Location	Austin, Texas, United States
Introduction	My family and I live, learn and play together here on Tangled Hill. Read on, and you'll meet my ten-year-old love child and his sweet papa, and you'll get to know me a bit, too. Who are we? We unschool ourselves, eat vegan and vegetarian, bum around Austin thrift stores, work to live (not the other way 'round), house stray animals, use natural home and body products, make things (artwork, crafts, music, poetry, comics, novels...), and live simply and frugally. I hope, as I begin to post about our days and ways, you'll stop by once in a while to say hi. I'll brew you a cup of virtual tea (peppermint? chamomile? ooh, maybe blackberry...), and we can have ourselves a time.
Interests	Simple living, unschooling, writing nonfiction and poetry, folk music, old photographs, reading, antique illustrations, web design, vegan cooking, playing various instruments, writing, chasing the dogs, homemaking, fostering community, learning, natural (non-toxic) living, that sort of thing.
Favorite Movies	Harold and Maude, Harvey, To Kill a Mockingbird, Sabrina (original), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Amélie, High Fidelity, The Chocolate War, The Point, When Harry Met Sally, Housekeeping, Jack the Bear, Broadcast News, Wings of Desire, Heathers, An Affair to Remember, Pretty in Pink (ahh, Duckie...), Say Anything, Some Kind of Wonderful, Fried Green Tomatoes, Kramer Vs. Kramer, The Celluloid Closet, To Sir With Love, Super Size Me, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, Roger and Me, Microcosmos. Favorite Actors (for various reasons): Sissy Spacek, Danny DeVito, Jack Black, John Cusack, Sally Field, Colin Firth, Christine Lahti, Judi Dench, Jon Cryer, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart, Holly Hunter, Sidney Poitier, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston, Albert Brooks, Mandy Patinkin
Favorite Music	Hem, Iron and Wine, James McMurtry, Gillian Welch, Grateful Dead, Patty Griffin, Jonatha Brooke, John Gorka, Ani DiFranco, Ellis Paul, Nanci Griffith, Simon and Garfunkel, CSNY, Arlo Guthrie, October Project, Richard Shindell, Nickel Creek, Richard, Linda and Teddy Thompson, Sandy Denny, Warren Zevon, Nick Drake, Alexi Murdoch, Cat Stevens, Bill Quateman, Peter Himmelman, Suzanne Vega, Tom Waits, The Weepies, Van Morrison, Susan McKeown, Grant Lee Phillips, Tracy Chapman, Marc Cohn, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Indigo Girls, Curtis Mayfield, Emmylou Harris, Don Conoscenti, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, Harry Nilsson, Dar WIlliams, Shawn Colvin, Oregon, Martin Sexton....
Favorite Books	Poetry: Aurthur Sze, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Kenyon, Jean Valentine, Sheryl St. Germain, Jane Hirshfield, Judy Jordan, Martin Espada, Sappho, William Carlos Williams, Yusef Komunyakaa, Luise Gluck, Li-Young Lee, Joy Harjo, Takuboku, Gertrude Stein, Alicia Ostriker Unschooling: John Holt, John Taylor Gatto, Mary Griffith, David Albert, Grace Llewellyn, Alison McKee Fiction: Marilynne Robinson, Harper Lee, Louise Erdrich, Sue Monk Kidd, Anne Tyler, Arundhati Roy, Anita Diamante, Audrey Niffenegger Miscellaneous Nonfiction: Larry Gonick, Howard Zinn, Kenneth C. Davis, J. J. Rodale, Victoria Moran, Ina May Gaskin