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I am a mom/artist/student of life. I have recently been diagnosed with a progressive neuromuscular disease so I try to cherish each and every day - especially with my daughter.

Art, records, books, toys, clothing, jewelry, collectibles in all shapes and sizes. Fun things and little treasures!

I am: Mother, artist, musician, free-spirited thinker, problem solver, gypsy, puddle stomper, moon jumper, food junkie, reader, writer, student, teacher, my daughter's hero. I love people, animals, art, melodies, ice-cream, vintage clothes, old books, movies, splashes of color, storm chasing, staying up really really late, my beautiful daughter Ella, creating art, helping children, philanthropy, promoting the arts, music, writing poetry - stories - songs, singing, museums, books, playing my guitar, experiencing life, happy gardens, fitness, fun houses, melotrons, theremins, my shiny blue metallic Ibanez bass, looking at little things, tornado chasing, watching a good storm, the smell of rain, giraffes, sushi, coffee and tea, good wine, Lindeman's kriek & frambois, cultures of the world, hiking in the rain forest, Australia, kookaburras, emus, kangaroos, New Zealand, coincidences, fossils, Brazil, fruit & vegetables, sitting by the fire, holding hands, memories, the ocean waves, learnin

The Hot Zone, Survive!: My Fight for Life in the High Sierras, Honor Killing, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, And I Alone Survived, Into Thin Air, Alive, The Stranger Beside Me, The Perfect Storm, Notes From a Small Island, Man's Search For Meaning, The San Francisco Earthquake, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Somerset Studio magazine, Arts and Antiques magazine, National Geographic, Where the Wild Things Are, The Moon Jumpers (illustrated by Maurice Sendak), 1984, Notes From New Zealand, Frog and Toad (all their adventures), Alice in Wonderland, The Anything Box, We Have Always Lived In the Castle, The October Country, The Secret Garden, Cordury, A Summertime Song, The Underwater Melon Man, anything by Keri Hulme

Waitress, The Fall, The Orphanage, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Down To the Bone, Michael Clayton, Deep Water, Ratatouille, The Illusionist, Pan's Labyrinth, United 93, Supersize Me, Touching the Void, Rain, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Two-Lane Blacktop, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Death In Venice, Babette's Feast, Animal House, Brazil, The Pianist, The Shawshank Redemption, Breaking the Waves, Sexy Beast, An Angel at My Table, Memento, anything Alfred Hitchcock, Gaslight, John Garfield movies, The Manchurian Candidate (original), A History of Violence, Cape Fear (the original with Robert Mitchum), William Castle films, Carnival of Souls, This is Spinal Tap, The Usual Suspects, anything by Ingmar Bergman, The Piano, Silence of the Lambs, American Beauty, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hotel Rwanda, Resevoir Dogs, Magnolia, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, The Green Mile, Gladiator, The Deer Hunter, A Christmas Story

Just a bit of the music I love: Twinkly but eerie carnival music, Flight of the Conchords, Phoenix Foundation, my dear friend-the amazing Jason Becker, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention, Richard Davies, The Moles, Cardinal, Dating Godot, The Feelies, Yung Wu, Bob Fay, Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Guided By Voices, Malcolm Travis, Eric Matthews, Kaleidoscope/Fairfield Parlour, Judee Sill, Don McGlashen & the Mutton Birds, Stephen Malkmus, Pavement, The Shins, Spoon, Milton Nascimento, Lo Borges, The Honkers, Jorge Ben, Fernando Brant, Beto Guedes, Paula Morelenbaum, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto, a lot of Brazilian Bossa Nova, Samba, etc., Selda Bagcan, Bulgarian Folk Music (most folk music), Kathleen Yearwood, Lloyd Cole, Ed Kuepper, The Marmalade, The Modern Lovers, Morgana King, Mable John, Mercedes Sosa, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, David Werner, Nick Drake, The Monochrome Set, My Morning Jacket, Hugh Masekela, Dave Pike, The Beatles, Genesis (the early years)

When I have time... Flight of the Conchords, Absolutely Fabulous, The League of Gentlemen, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, etc. and the odd dose of The Honeymooners, Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, Night Gallery, Everest, I Shouldn't Be Alive, The Sopranos, X Files, Twin Peaks, I Love Lucy, Seinfeld, Frazier, Animal Planet, The History Channel, Candid Camera, The Avengers, The Prisoner, The Saint, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, Land of the Giants, Dark Shadows, The Munsters, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Emergency, Thunderbirds, Underdog, Tom & Jerry, Gumby & Pokey, Looney Tunes & Merry Melodies

My daughter, Ella