McCotta's Blog
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Writer, musician |
| Location | Spruce Pine, NC, United States |
| Introduction | I am a writer, Irish trad fiddler, piper's wife, Mom of three grown kids, recently transplanted to rural mountain town in NC, seeking grace, understanding, a truer path. |
| Interests | Traditional Irish music, Tarot studies, Poetry, Fiction, Creative non-fiction, Finding true friends |
| Favorite Movies | All Jane Austen, Elephant Man, It's a Wonderful Life, Roman Holiday, To Kill a Mockingbird, Steel Magnolias, Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters, Alice, Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More, West Side Story, Boccacio 70, Amarcord, Fanny and Alexander, It Happened One Night, A Love Affair to Remember, Some Like it Hot, Bridges of Madison County, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truly Madly Deeply, The Commitments, The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Favorite Music | Irish trad musicians Paddy Canny, Junior Crehan, James Cullinan, Tony Linnane, Liam O'Flynn, Willie Kelly, James Kelly, Mick O'Brien, Josephine Marsh, Mary Custy Greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Mose Allison, Jimmy Dorsey, The Ink Spots, Errol Garner, Robert Johnson, Glenn Miller, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Dave Brubeck Quartet, David Byrne, Others like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, Eric Andersen, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Janis Joplin, James Morrison, Richie Havens, Joni Mitchell, or like Edith Piaf, Paolo Conte, Jacques Brel |
| Favorite Books | The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Look Homeward Angel, A Farewell to Arms, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston), War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Varieties of Religious Experience, (William James), The Horse's Mouth (Joyce Carey), The Green Fool (Paddy Kavanaugh), Green Darkness (Anya Seton), Wind in the Willows, Winnie the Pooh, Little Women, all Jane Austen, Jung's Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, Man and His Symbols, Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Kutzwinkle's The Fan Man, Memoirs of a Geisha, all Maeve Binchy, all Anne Rivers Siddons, all Rosamunde Pilcher, all Pat Conroy, almost all Elizabeth George |