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About Me

SOMETIMES THE LITTLE GUY STICKS UP FOR HIMSELF BY LEARNING TO BE A LITTLE WILY AND HARD TO PIN DOWN. WATCH AND LEARN. ***********************************************************

My Interests

Music, pets, people watching, writing, playing cards

I'd like to meet:

Tyler Perry in character as Madea. Ellen Degeneres. Cedric the Entertainer as Cafeteria Lady. Dana Carvey as Church Lady. What is it with me and a man in drag? Maybe "sometimes it's hard to be a woman..."

Music:

Van Morrison,BELFAST COWBOYS, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Al Green, NATHAN MILLER, PROPHET OF THE DAWN, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Ziggy Marley, Corrine Bailey Rae, Lexie Lee, Harry Nilson,BILLY HARVEY,STEVEPOLTZ, The Shins Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Bare Naked Ladies, Janis Joplin,DESDAMONA, DESSA, MARIA ISA, DEBRA G., SCOTT DERCKS, Carlos Santana, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Jorma Kaukonen(Hot Tuna), Dickie Betts and Great Southern, Allman Brothers, David Gray, Dar Williams, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfeild, Jewel, Sia, Natalie Merchant, JOANNA JAMES, Joni Mitchell, Sheryl Crow, Billy Holiday, Alanis Morisette, Johnny Lang, John Hiatt, Everclear, Michelle Ndegeocello, Miles Davis, Cowboy Junkies and the list will go on. In capitals are my pets/ The stars I hope to watch as they shine on.

Movies:

Sweetland,Little Miss Sunshine,Smoke Signals,Fried Green Tomatoes,Crazy in Alabama,It Could Happen To You,Life is Beautiful(La Vita e Bella),Analyze This,School of Rock,Shallow Hal,Nacho Libre

Television:

Crime Shows

Books:

Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Bag Lady by Sandra Benitez, The Secret of Hurricanes by Theresa Williams The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez In the Time Of The Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Yo by Julia Alvarez, The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bone Setter's Daughter by Amy Tan, The Handmaids Tale, Alias Grace and Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood

Heroes:

My great grandma Gaetana.

My Blog

Devil’s candy

Devil's candy is the description I found this week when looking up high fructose corn syrup on the internet. It's also a term used to describe heroin and crack. Two weeks ago some friends were discus...
Posted by B on Tue, 06 May 2008 03:25:00 PST

Revelations From the Rockpile: Finding Emo

The job site went well this week. There were some happier events this week with someone at the jobsite becoming a grandma and a client birthday. She got a fish for her birthday and named it "emo." My ...
Posted by B on Sat, 03 May 2008 12:01:00 PST

Women Who Read too Much (Part Two)

Last month I loaned my mother Iris Origo's journal, War in Val Dorcia, about World War II in Italy. It's a journal written by a Marchesa living in Tuscany whose wealthy family helped the I...
Posted by B on Thu, 01 May 2008 05:45:00 PST

Noblesse Oblige Not Spoken Here

I was looking for jobs today after work. I haven't written or unpdated my resume in a while. I'm not sure what this is about really. I love my clients and working with them brings me a kind ...
Posted by B on Thu, 01 May 2008 05:29:00 PST

Comfort Takes Strange Forms

Freja, My little A.D.H.D cat explores the Christmas tree at Christmas. Gaetana says, "Can I help you?" Marigold says "I've had enough."...
Posted by B on Thu, 01 May 2008 05:53:00 PST

Revelations from the Rockpile

The jobsite was kind of a sad this week. One of the employees at the business I work at lost her young adult daughter to a house fire on campus. I felt really bad for her but didn't want to be t...
Posted by B on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:29:00 PST

A Tail of Three Kitties (Just the Three)

Marigold: Feature Cat of the Week A couple of times I've professed to being a "crazy cat lady." One time I was at the vets office with Gaetana and I must have mentioned the other cats because h...
Posted by B on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:22:00 PST

Women Who Read Too Much, Part One

When my daughter Toni was a toddler she would freak out people on the bus by reciting lines from books like, "Peter got caught in the gooseberry net and was ready to give himself up for lost" fr...
Posted by B on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:44:00 PST

Daughters

I just had write to this extra blog today after meeting and talking to my brother's eight year old daughter Sophie today. I hadn't seen her in a long time. She was telling me about her cats and how th...
Posted by B on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:55:00 PST

Words of Hope from the Rockpile

Target the Job Coach At the job site today the clients had a lunch outing to celebrate thier hard work. Earlier in the week one of my clients invited the human resource manager at the Super...
Posted by B on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:00:00 PST