Forty-seven.
Poet, writer, editor; a graphomaniac, for sure.
Loves the sound of rain, the smell of homemade ratatouille, the pleasure of company, and the serenity of solitude--not all in that order.
Reads way too much; possibly a bibliomaniac.
Otaku since 1990; fujoshi since 2002. Slash fan and advocate of gender-bending/blending.
Loves Japanese style, gypsy music, manga, anime, Russian poets and poetry over all.
Super keen on movies, crime drama, satire, bad puns, and art.
Fat chick--not into thinspo, fatspo, or any spo.
People watcher, eavesdropper, and fond of hidden places.
Singer in a Sunday choir. No, really.
Speaker of Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
In love with libraries.
Misses the pleasure of sitting on a porch greatly.
Personal assistant to a fighting, biting lightning-fast tuxedo cat.
Working on my first book of poetry--look for Set List in 2012!
Alive and living in the City Beautiful, a/k/a Coral Gables.
27. A quote you try to live by.
Two quotes I adore greatly, and which I try to keep at heart.
The first, from the play, Lady Windemere’s Fan, by Oscar Wilde: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” I first heard this—paraphrased—in a Pretenders song, back in 1982. And I immediately fell in love with it: the desire to reach beyond misery, past pettiness and squalor…
Yes, Mr. Wilde was being a little arch when he wrote it. But there is a sense of longing, behind the archness, past the irony.
The other quote comes from the Leonard Cohen song, “Stories of the Street”: “We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.” I suppose what makes that so dear is the paradox of who I am, how I am, in comparison to the world around me.
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