That's MISS Anna to you!

I will always encourage bad behavior so if you're looking to me to be a good chaperone, you'll be disappointed. Eccentrics have a special place in my heart. I am fiercely loyal to my friends and causes that I hold near and dear. I am not, sad to say, the best person to peruse a shelf of movies with: I always go for the more amusing titles and these rarely live up to their promise. I have, however, never been let down when I paint my toes a shade called SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL or revisit a book called LADIES IN HADES: A STORY OF HELL'S SMART SET (boysenberry cloth binding, drawings of a Flapper Cleopatra batting her kohled eyes at Satan in a top hat, v. nice). In August 2007, I moved back to DC after 15 years in NYC. When I was a little girl I had a crush on The Lone Ranger. My favorite photo from those days features me in a lawnchair surrounded by a group of boys with toy guns--my Belle Starr period. I love old cemeteries, vintage charm bracelets, sifting through stacks of LPs and 45s at junk shops, whiskey over beer, Rhett Butler, the humorous collisions in the best of Vivienne Westwood's designs, used bookstores, Americana in all forms, the cities of New York, D.C., and Ann Arbor, the rock and the roll, the old-time honky tonk, the history of perfumery, '30s, '40s and '50s design, and Greek thyme-based honey. I believe you can tell a lot about a person from the way they treat animals and I will ALWAYS root for the underdog.