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About Me

Greetings from the Pacific Northwest, USA. My name is Karen. Originally from Durham, North Carolina. Met my best friend Will in Asheville, NC in the early 1980s. We reside in Toledo, Oregon with our hound dog, Gertrude and a newly acquired cat named Alice. Moved here four years ago following twenty in San Francisco. Big change of pace!When not promanading Gertrude about town we try to keep our roses alive by killing all the morning glories while considering all the while who decreed that roses are preferable.

My Interests

Literature, history, baseball, board games, movies

I'd like to meet:

The person behind the facade. Or a reasonable facsimile.

Music:

Louis Armstrong, Keith Jarrett, Tom Waits, Thelonious Monk, Patti Smith, Rachmaninov, Billie Holiday,

Movies:

Silent films of Lon Chaney / Films of Orson Welles / Drunken Angel, Akira Kurasawa /Down be Law, Jim Jarmusch / The Man Who Wasn't There, Coen Bros / Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee / Beat the Devil, John Huston

Television:

No thanks.

Books:

Thomas Wolfe, Gertrude Stein, Joyce, Beckett, Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie, Virginia Woolf, Nabokov, Shakespeare, Maria Luisa Bombal

Heroes:

Joanna van Gogh, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Stephen Hawkins, Susanne Valadon, Abe Lincoln, FDR

My Blog

Catfight!

Nobody writes a better catfighting dialogue than Shakespeare! Watched Richard II with Derek Jacobi tonight. Wonderful stuff. Bollingbroke and Mowbray are not much more than regal&nbs...
Posted by Karevan on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:40:00 PST

The Dream Entire

At first I was not aware that I was dreaming. Will, and I were walking our hound in Golden Gate Park. It did not seem at all odd that Gertrude was with us in San Francisco although she did ...
Posted by Karevan on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:03:00 PST

Yaquina Bay Autumn

After the equinox first storm slams openpalmed the Oregon coast. Rattles my house seven miles inland. Kiting up deck chairs over into blackberry bramble. Pitching pale golden a...
Posted by Karevan on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:08:00 PST

Letter to Lady Vice

Hey Naomi,Glancing over my holiday gift list I noticed two more people who would like your CD "About Time". So, I'd like to order a coupla more please. Payday's Friday so watch the mail next week... a...
Posted by Karevan on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:41:00 PST

Hello Pilgrims

Will and I were living in the Tenderloin in San Francisco. It is the kind of neighborhood where you turn up your collar and lock up your heart before stepping outside to scurry away. One of...
Posted by Karevan on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:08:00 PST