About Me
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- Member since Sep 15, 2006
- Karkin, California
- United States
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I live in a small town in Northern California, in a building that dates from the 1860s (a former Chinese gambling parlor and bordello, I'm told, although no one is getting lucky here lately). My place is very close to the water's edge, so I can look out my window and see the new bridge, which is always lit up at night, and watch big cargo ships from the Far East gliding across the channel. If you pay attention, you can hear--and see--trains rattling along under the hills across the water.
I trained as a journalist and have worked variously as a freelance writer, editor, copy editor, and proofreader. I also studied creative writing, and while I am not demonstrably ambitious, I hope to make a meaningful contribution to the world of letters before I die. Meaningful to me, anyway. I work part-time in the evenings as a reading and writing tutor. During the day, I homeschool my son and try to steal time to write. I love books, funny movies, and hanging out with my kids.
Interests
- ocean,
- san francisco,
- poetry,
- friends,
- harry potter,
- 24,
- science,
- magazines,
- battlestar galactica,
- singing,
- editing,
- culture,
- google,
- politics,
- architecture,
- food,
- books,
- oakland,
- dogs,
- history,
- letters,
- movies,
- green,
- art,
- brownies,
- children,
- prince,
- dancing,
- dance,
- sleep,
- water,
- feminism,
- writing,
- chinese food,
- berkeley,
- shakespeare,
- ernest hemingway,
- news,
- paper,
- grammar,
- yoga,
- beaches,
- literature,
- theater,
- social justice,
- blokus,
- modernism,
- fairy tales,
- atheism,
- journalism,
- the new yorker,
- acting,
- pepsi,
- gossip,
- folklore,
- typewriters,
- altered books,
- research,
- wikipedia,
- publishing,
- slow food,
- dictionaries,
- thrift stores,
- libraries,
- sociology,
- mexican food,
- cults,
- trivia,
- indian food,
- anthropology,
- performance,
- digital photography,
- children's books,
- dark chocolate,
- my children,
- vietnamese food,
- plays,
- writers,
- short stories,
- daydreaming,
- scientology,
- emma goldman,
- renaissance,
- petaluma,
- calligraphy,
- self-improvement,
- thai food,
- old houses,
- greens,
- bibliophilia,
- art supplies,
- poets,
- single parenting,
- falling in love,
- freebies,
- housewifery,
- kol,
- james joyce,
- middle school,
- proofreading,
- copy editing,
- googling,
- useless information,
- american revolution,
- nooks and crannies,
- gyros,
- mortification,
- folk tales,
- pyrex,
- 1964,
- sonoma county,
- wodehouse,
- solano county,
- coffee table books,
- vintage furniture,
- mike leigh,
- benicia,
- houseboats,
- amy winehouse,
- vallejo,
- california native plants,
- modern first editions,
- ornamental penmanship,
- leonard michaels,
- car camping,
- hiding places,
- al zampa bridge,
- carquinez strait,
- poets & writers,
- small presses,
- new coins,
- rambling old houses,
- manual typewriters,
- daedalus books,
- igigi,
- encyclopedia britannica,
- jetpens,
- bernard maybeck,
- corelle,
- lucien freud,
- chicago manual of style,
- meissen,
- stax/hi records,
- tree houses,
- bjorn wiinblad,
- karkin
Groups
- Atheists,
- NaNoWriMo Collective,
- 24,
- Frankly My Dear...,
- Vox Literature Liberation Front,
- Homeschooling,
- Friday5,
- weird parents,
- Once Upon a Time...,
- 50 in 365,
- Love where you live,
- Writers Hub,
- Freethinkers,
- Vox Mobile,
- Got Twinz,
- The Poet's Trade,
- RIS,
- Altered,
- The Academy of Fine Ideas,
- Parents With Daughters
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