Sleeping Dogs (my band) Subdudes, Joni Mitchell, Dru Towl, Andean and African music, Aretha, Etta, Tina, rock, jazz, Delbert McClinton, Bonnie Raitt, Leonard Cohen, Keb Mo, KD Lang, Baba Olatunji, Indigo Girls, Dixie Chicks, Janis Joplin,. Beethoven and Bach- cello piano, and flute. Lots and lots more...

Full Bloom (about O'Keeffe and full of juicy and informative gossip) House of Spirits, Isabelle Allende; Daybook by Anne Truitt, Tony Hillerman, Carl Hiaasen, Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Doris, too many books to list

Almost Famous, Dances with Wolves, Hairspray, The Milagro Beanfield War, Thelma and Louise, Juno

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I am a full time artist, and occasional musician and educator.
I work in acrylic, watercolor & oil & have an entirely different body of work in clay sculpture. I have a masters in mud- MFA in clay sculpture.

I am sustained by the connection and energy created by the arts, a source which transcends linguistic and cultural and political borders.

creating art, exploring, finishing, learning, music, dancing, eclipses, the moon, back rubs, spring, autumn, the Caribbean,the Aegean, stoplight parrotfish, the Green Mountains, the pyrenees, the Rockies, the Andes, bougainvilla, Machu Picchu, Crete, Catalonia,the South China Sea, hepatica, mangos, water in the desert, desert primroses, light in the forest, kayaking over pond weeds, windsurfing, singing the blues, music & art, art & music.

mean people, gravity, bad politicians, ignorance, unkindness, destruction, wastefulness, clear cuts, catastrophes, bad music, war, violence, income tax, LIES and misrepresentations.

Gardens, birds, kitchens, forests, fields, ponds and the sea. Mountains, hiking, snorkeling, swimming, the desert. theatre, music, the Sudbury hot-tub book club,