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Tara

My Warpaint is Sharpie Ink.

About Me

Pacifism kicks ass!

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My Interests

traveling, tattoos, growing things, music, sustainable agriculture, herbal medicine, Food Not Bombs, dumpster diving, reading, children and animals, the free store, critical mass, tea time, manatees, snot rockets, inside-out eyelids, laughing so hard I snort, barn cleaning, and my latest addiction...knitting.

I'd like to meet:

Shel Silverstein, Jim Henson, Tom Robbins and Marie Laveau, voodoo queen of New Orleans. Oh, and sexy organic farmers.

Music:

The Eels, Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson, Spacehog, Beck, Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade, Phish, The Doors, Violent Femmes, The Kinks, Janis Joplin, Le Tigre, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Jeff Buckley, Pavement, Talking Heads, George Clinton, Queen, Primus, The Beatles, Kermit the Frog, Paul Simon, Of Montreal

Movies:

Amelie, Wet Hot American Summer, I Heart Huckabees, What the Bleep Do We Know?, The Take, Twelve Angry Men

Television:

Bill Nye the Science Guy, Strangers With Candy, Chappelle's Show, Mr. Show, Reno 911

Books:

The Giver, Reinventing Eve, The Curse, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in The Attic, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, The Giving Tree, Oh, The Places You Will Go, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The Juicing Bible, Wigfield, A Return to Modesty, Nourishing Traditions, 1984, People's History of the United States, Fast Food Nation

Heroes:

Shel Silverstein, Jim Henson, Roald Dahl, My Mom

My Blog

Ah, spring...

I have an interview in NYC on Wednesday at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.  I am very excited and also nervous...so, anxious?  Yeah...anxious.  I am also going to see a dear friend who I...
Posted by Tara on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:01:00 PST

Kids aren't always so great.

Although I love working with the children here, the things they share with me are not always heartwarming...I now have strep throat   I just went to the farm store and got some echinacea, ba...
Posted by Tara on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:25:00 PST

Real jobs are scary.

Well...I am really gong to do it.  Today, I finished my cover letter and resume for a "real" job...you know, one whose description is not preceeded by the words part-time, volunteer or intern.&nb...
Posted by Tara on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:25:00 PST

Choices...

Why is it that when you have the most choices, you often feel most trapped???  I am having such a difficult time deciding what to do next.  Being offered an apprenticeship position here on t...
Posted by Tara on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:33:00 PST

Caribbean Amphibian

Florida has been a great... Pet a manatee, kayaked in the Gulf of Mexico, caught crabs and shrimp, saw a dolphin, hiked in the Everglades, got 2 new tattoos, saw my grandma and got a nice tan.  I...
Posted by Tara on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:35:00 PST

Possibilities

  The past washes over us. Memories surface as tears follow to carry them away, dragging the past to the depth of a bottomless mind. The present rushes to the surface while the future shines down...
Posted by Tara on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:30:00 PST