Name:

Sharon

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Occupation:

Waiting for Spring

Hobbies:

BOOKS: Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth, where I'm a Trustee, www.tamworthlibrary.org. MULTI-MEDIA: My husband Jeff's You Tube site (liketelevisionsnow) and his Sketchfu drawing site at www.sketchfu.com (screen name - liketelevisionsnow). YOGA: Check out www.kripalu.org and www.yoga.com. ZEN: San Francisco Zen Center - www.sfzc.org. LISTEN TO: This I Believe, on National Public Radio.

Movies:

Casablanca, To Kill a Mockingbird, anything with Katherine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Betty Davis, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck or Humphrey Bogart, anything by or with Orson Welles, Twilight Zone, original and Next Generation Star Treks. The great Judi Dench and Helen Mirren.

Music:

The Boss (for all us Jersey Girls), Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Van Morrison, Miles Davis, Etta James, Thelonious Monk, the Pretenders, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Young, Indigo Girls, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Michelle Shocked, Maria Muldaur, Mary Black, Carol Noonan, Herbie Hancock.

Books:

What I'm currently reading: Atonement, by Ian McEwan. Recent reads: Jesus Land, a memoir by Julia Scheeres - touching. Eric Clapton's Autobiography - awesome. Mary Oliver's new poems in Thirst. My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel (first European woman to visit Tibet in 1923). The Forest Lover, by Susan Vreeland - Wonderful introduction to Canadian artist Emily Carr! Peony in Love by Lisa See and Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky -- both great historical fictions. Old favorites: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Stephen King's The Stand, Jane Kenyon's Poetry, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Old adventures by Jack London and Ernest Hemingway. Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451; bodies of work by Kurt Vonnegut and Isaac Asimov. Helen and Scott Nearing's The Good Life. Any of Studs Terkel's compilations on American work and life.