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SmartyKate

smart is the new sexy

About Me

funny/somber, loud/quiet, active/still, and energetic/lethargic; but, oddly enough, not bipolar. never met a word i didn't like, except maybe effluent, or cringe, but even they have their moments.

My Interests

yoga, cowboy boots, sharon olds's poetry, cheese enchiladas, baseball, and geriatric cats

I'd like to meet:

readers, writers, yoga practioners & red sox fans

Music:

austin, tx music of all flavors...currently stepping out of town with Cake and Robbie Fulks

Movies:

badlands, to kill a mockingbird, any documentary

Television:

nope.

Books:

absalom, absalom; assassination vacation; bel canto; blood meridian(that's just the beginning of the alphabet)

Heroes:

jane goodall, walt whitman, yogi bhajan

My Blog

On Being Needed

About a month ago, I adopted a beautiful, sad-eyed Golden Retriever mix from our local animal shelter. The adoption agent said that her time was almost up; she was emaciated from being lost in the woo...
Posted by SmartyKate on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:53:00 PST

Florida (a story)

This was supposed to have been Lenny's vacation. That's what I'm thinking as I drop my only quarter into the slot on the viewing lens at the end of the pier. A quarter I had to dig from the bottom of ...
Posted by SmartyKate on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:16:00 PST