CURRENT MISSION

raising my special needs child to become the best he can be while still having a life of my own

ABOUT ME

Compassionate, intense, accepting, somewhat shy. Slow to warm up but a committed friend once you get to know me.

Interests

taking courses, reading, cooking, time with friends, alternative education, international adoption, social action, parenting, cultural studies, french culture and language, multiracial families, Latin American literature, comparative religious studies

• culture
• literature
• education
• social action
• cooking
• reading
• cultural studies
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Music- favourites include: Amos Lee, Leonard Cohen, Joan Armatrading, Tracy Chapman, James Cotton, Tyrone Cotton, Marlena Smalls, Jesse Cook, Johannes Linstead, Paco de Lucia, Govi, Armik, Glenn Gould, Sarah Mclachlan, Emma Shapplin, Kate Bush, Loreena McKennitt, Nellie McKay, KD Lang, Ani DiFranco, Nora Jones, Fleetwood Mac, Buena Vista Social Club, Miles Davis, John Coltrane
Films - Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Daisy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Groundhog Day, Rear Window, any Muppet Movie, Shadowlands, Forrest Gump, Children of Paradise, Chocolat, The Shawshank Redemption, Holes, Raise the Red Lantern, Amelie, The Color Purple, Big Fish, Ratatouille
Books- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Labyrinths - Jorges Luis Borges, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino, Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky, Poetry Home Repair Manual - Ted Kooser, A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry, Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden, Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin, Cane River- Lalita Tademy, anything by Paul Auster, Ernest Hemingway, Kate Chopin, Joanne Harris, or Isabel Allende, and lots lots more....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Becoming a mom. Nothing else compares.

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