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Alice

If there is no wind, row.

About Me

My mother was French and Greek, father English, Irish and Swedish ... Studied elementary education and art in college ... I owned a property management/residential leasing company for 18 years ... Listening and dancing to live music is one of my favorite things to do ... I may give in, but I will never give up ... As much as I enjoy reading, I love listening to someone read to me, especially poetry ... Have had a German Shepherd dog as a pet since childhood ... Observant and detail orientated, curious and forgiving ... A visual learner and thinker with a playful imagination ...

My Interests

Music, books, Winslow Homer, photography, poetry, rocky coastlines, Gloucester, MA motherhood, laughter, eBay, cooking, SXM, antique maps, newspapers, quilting, reading, sea glass jewelry, heart shaped stones, old coins, stamps and postcards, research, foreign films, writing, teaching, knitting, black cashmere, road trips, book stores, fireside activities, old movie theaters, true stories, artists, musicians, painters and poets, chance encounters ...

I'd like to meet:

Winslow Homer, Pablo Neruda, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Confucius, Charles Bukowski, Albert Einstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Dorothy Parker, Leonard Cohen, Larry David, Big Papi, Johnny Damon (before he cut his hair and started wearing pinstripes), Bob Dylan, Neil Young ... And of course friends and bands here at myspace. The list could go on forever. A better question for someone like me would be to ask who I would not want to meet. Hmmm, now that's food for thought ...

Music:

Neil Young, Counting Crows, Bob Dylan, The Wallflowers, Brad Byrd, Goo Goo Dolls, Guster, Snow Patrol, Jackson Browne, Eagles, Boston, 311, Jet, James Blunt, Damien Rice, Coldplay, AC/DC, Patti Smith, Cheap Trick, Radiohead, Nickelback, Modern English, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra, The Flaming Lips, GoGo's, The Dents, Social Distortion, Dogmatics, Uncle Kracker, Kinks, Doors, Pete Yorn, Van Morrison, Sublime, Peter Wolf, Beatles, Ramones, Rolling Stones, The Byrds, New York Dolls, Donovan, Lucinda Williams, Augustana, John Barry, R.E.M., Bad Company, Gin Blossoms, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Clapton, Undertones, The Cure, The Clash, Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, Joe Walsh, ZZ Top, Stevie Ray Vaughan, U2, The Band, Gram Parsons, Led Zepplin, Marshall Tucker Band, David Gray, Pure Prairie League, Jim Femino, Vince Gill, New Riders of the Purple Sage, 3 Doors Down, Woody Guthrie, Oasis, Replacements, The Velvet Underground, Neighborhoods, Buzzcocks, Wilson Pickett, Cat Stevens, Adam Ezra, Santana, NRBQ, Green Day, Bob Seger, Hinder, Talking Heads, Wilco, Lifehouse, Tom Petty, Lou Reed, Robert Palmer, Patty Griffin, David Bowie, Natalie Merchant, Vertical Horizon, Jim Croce, Creed, Billy Idol, The Killers, Third Eye Blind, Torpedos, Leonard Cohen ....

Movies:

Il Postino, Lady Chatterley, Somewhere In Time, Titanic, Doctor Zhivago, Uncle Buck, The Big Chill, A Little Romance, Age of Innocence, Chocolat, The Bridges of Madison County, Motorcycle Diaries, Like Water for Chocolate, Evening, School of Rock, Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont, Polis Is This Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place, The Last Waltz ...

Television:

Red Sox baseball, 30 Rock, CSI, Curb Your Enthusiasm ...

Books:

Robert Creeley, John Wieners, Joseph E. Garland, Lloyd Goodrich, Ted Berrigan, Pablo Neruda, Vincent Ferrini, Charles Olson, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Ken Follett, Elizabeth Ripley, Michael Connelly, Edith Wharton, Leonard Cohen, Dorothy Parker, James Patterson, Joanne Harris, Robert James Waller, Frances Mayes, Elizabeth Atwood Taylor, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Michael Palmer, Suzanne O'Callaghan, Isabel Allende, C.S. Lambert, D.H. Lawrence, Alice Walker, Agatha Christie, Mary Oliver, Shel Silverstein, Lewis Carroll, Jack Prelutsky, Richard Matheson, Nicholas Sparks, Gertrude Jekyll, Richard LaMotte, Chester Brigham, Jean-Dominique Bauby ....

Heroes:

My Mom. Bless her soul.

My Blog

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) SYMPTOM RECITAL

   SYMPTOM RECITALI do not like my state of mind;I’m bitter, querulous, unkind.I hate my legs, I hate my hands,I do not yearn for lovelier lands.I dread the dawn’s recurrent ligh...
Posted by Alice on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:06:00 PST

John Keats (1795-1821) "Where be ye going, you Devon maid?"

"Where be ye going, you Devon maid?"IWhere be ye going, you Devon maid?    And what have ye there i' the basket?Ye tight little fairy, just fresh from the dairy,    Will ...
Posted by Alice on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:39:00 PST

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) L

                                     L...
Posted by Alice on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:18:00 PST

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) INTERIOR

               INTERIORHer mind lives in a quiet room,   A narrow room, and tall,With pretty lamps to quench the gloom &n...
Posted by Alice on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:12:00 PST

Alices Chocolate Chunk Cookie Recipe

I thought while sitting here waiting for each batch to bake why not post the recipe for these delicious cookies! Alice's Cookie Recipe1 12 ounce bag of Hershey's (milk chocolate) Kisses. Remove the...
Posted by Alice on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:57:00 PST

Leonard Cohen (1934-) DISTURBED THIS MORNING

DISTURBED THIS MORNINGAh. That.That's what I was so disturbedabout this morning:my desire has come back,and I want you again.I was doing so fine,I was above it all.The boys and girls were beautifuland...
Posted by Alice on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:24:00 PST

Vincent Ferrini (1913-2007) THE BREAK THROUGH

                      THE BREAK THROUGHNo one is innocentthe pattern was in effectlong before what anyone found himself in themiddle oflook ...
Posted by Alice on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:16:00 PST

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Ode to a Beautiful Nude

Ode to a Beautiful NudeWith a chaste heart,with pure eyes,I celebrate your beautyholding the leash of bloodso that it might leap outand trace your outlinewhereyou lie down in my odeas in a land of for...
Posted by Alice on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:50:00 PST

Vincent Ferrini (1913-2007)

BIRD BOAT:  Elaine WingSheesa one wingI'm da uddashees da bowI'm da ruddashees da windI'm da fireshees da hubov my constellashun Lyreshees da mindn da fingawe crabshave a stingashe see beforeI, b...
Posted by Alice on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:22:00 PST

John Keats (1795-1821) BRIGHT STAR

                              BRIGHT STARBright star, would I were stedfast as thou art --    Not in lone...
Posted by Alice on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:10:00 PST