Artist, writer, runner....not cuz I like to run...but bring my music and it all falls away & the treasure hunt begins, adoptive mom, live music lover, people watcher, storyteller, seeker of "hopefully ever after" endings...
People who can make me laugh, people who can make me cry. Hopefully, more of the former. Inspired creative types. Witty people I can steal good one-liners from.
Jeff Buckley, Michael McDermott, Snow Patrol, Citizen Cope, Butch Walker, Jonny Lang, Ray LaMontagne, Damien Rice, Marc Broussard, Will Hoge, Cranberries, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, Ours, Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Jewel, Peter Gabriel, Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, Ingram Hill, Dearborn, Steafan Hanvey, Kyle Riabko, Edwin McCain, John Mellencamp, Tracy Chapman, Joss Stone, Pearl Jam, Sarah McLachlan, Melissa Etheridge ~~ COME ALIVE, by Foo Fighters...
Shawshank Redemption, Sophie's Choice, The Green Mile, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Truman Show, Groundhog Day, Shindler's List, The Pianist, Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense, A Christmas Story, To Kill A Mockingbird, Dances With Wolves, Stand By Me, Dead Poets Society, Sling Blade, Memento, Sideways, Kingpin, Rain Man, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Silence of the Lambs, Braveheart, Fargo
Rarely.
Stuck on Kerouac for quite a while (still am). Flannery O'Connor, William Saroyan, Robert Penn Warren, Sylvia Plath, Neil Gaiman, Janet Fitch, David Sedaris...any and all of those photojournalistic books like A Day In America/The World
My dad, who survived a concentration camp (and raising 5 children). A quiet hero, he was.