Mary Whitsell
- Gender: Female
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: Teaching teenagers; writing and raising teenagers -- not always in that order...
- Location: The Near East (for the time being)
About Me
Every member of my family was born in a different country. We never know who to cheer for when we watch the Olympics, so we root for everybody.
When you've got water stuck in your ear, how do you get it out?
When I get water stuck in my ear I'll probably remember.
Interests
- Writing
- reading
- healthy living
- people watching
- studying Japanese
- history
- languages
- bringing up kids
- appreciating cats
- messing around in my garden
- singing
- talking
Favorite Movies
- Kiss of the Spider Woman
- As Good as it Gets
- Midnight Cowboy
- Bread & Chocolate
- Kinky Boots
- Vera Drake
- Shrek
- The Fisher King
- El Labarinto del Fauno
- Ikiru
- Les Triplettes de Belleville
- Oh Brother! Where Art Thou?
- Wag the Dog
- A Room with a View
- The Commitments
- The West Wing (so what if it's a TV show?)
Favorite Music
- Absolutely anything done by:
- Ry Cooder
- reggae
- country & western
- opera
- soul
- enka
- hymns
- bluegrass
- classical
Favorite Books
- The Remains of the Day
- White Teeth
- Possession
- The Cloister and the Hearth
- Cranford
- One Thousand White Women
- Chasing the Monsoon
- Manchild in the Promised Land
- Bean Trees
- The God of Small Things
- Patrick O'Brian's nautical novels 1-18
- Pigs in Heaven
- Oscar and Lucinda
- The Fixer
- Carmichael's Dog
- Huckleberry Finn
- Another World
- The Hundred Secret Senses
- Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- The Afghan Amulet
- Iron and Silk
- March
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