[They] began to understand that [she] possessed a strange mind and a facility with words.
— Atonement, Ian McEwan
I love so many things that I can hardly keep any of it to myself, so here it is, so you can have it too.
Alphabetized interests include:
1960s Bob Dylan, animals in animal costumes, Annie and Sam Lamott, babies wearing tiny overalls, being ladylike, being decidedly unladylike, bows and beads, burritos, cake light, champagne, Claire and Ruth Fisher, comfort foods, county fairs, creative nonfiction, dandelion chains, delicious and gorgeous words, dresses, drives at night, eating brunch on weekends, Etsy, farmers market, feminism, Frida Kahlo, friendship bracelets, frozen Cokes, g&ts, Gertrude Stein, going green, grad school dreams, haberdashery, high-tops, hilarity, hip-hop, Homeric poems, hopeful poetry, ice cream cake, Isabella Rossellini Looka So Nice the cat, James Paul McCartney, Joan Didion, John Winston Lennon, knitting with soft wool, Larry today & Larry forever, love letters, memoirs, moving to the country, my jade plant, newspaper crosswords, Nicole Georges' journals, night picnics, prettiness, psychedelic didactic childrens stories, public libraries, public pools, really spicy bloody marys, red wine with dinner, red wine also basically anytime, Rhymesayers Entertainment, ribbons, seeing awesome dogs, short stories, shots of Patrón, singing lullabies, Six Feet Under, summer, swingsets, talking late in bed, The Life Aquatic, the mighty Mos Def, the multiverse, the Pleiades, the Universe, the word submarine, thinking about tattoos, Thomas Alan Waits, vacations by myself, vintage spy fiction, Virginia Woolf, walking home barefoot, wittiness, worrying about Brother Ali, writing in my Moleskine, yoga, Yoko Ono's Twitter, you and the things you love too.
I am a writer, actress and zinester living in downtown Champaign, Illinois. I was journaling online before the word "blog" was even a gleam in its daddy's eye.
In 2010, I am focusing on infusing my life with persistence and gratitude.
If you are interested in asking me to write for you (and ahem why wouldn't you be), feel free to contact me using the "Say Hi!" link above. A sample of my creative nonfiction work is located here.
