Amy

• Age: 40
• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Sagittarius
• Zodiac Year: Monkey
• Industry: Publishing
• Occupation: editor
• Location: Tri-state area : United States

About Me

New mom, freelance editor, and part-time poet who has recently moved her blog to Blogspot and posts to keep her writing practice going and to talk all about editing and freelancing, mixed about with parenting.

You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?

on the Lost island

Interests

• astronomy
• writing and reading poetry
• experiencing the outdoors
• gathering food drive donations
• righting the world's grammar
• eating R's cooking
• practicing my French
• thinking zen
• Belgium and Paris
• chemistry
• flash fiction
• collecting vinyl
• NYC museums
• traveling New England
• needless clothes and handbag and shoe shopping
• collecting vintage pop bead necklaces
• fantasy football
• hording old Robin Hood texts
• arts and crafts pottery
• watching PGA golf on lazy Sunday afternoons
• discovering new prog bands to fall in love with
• keeping the art of handwritten letters alive

Favorite Movies

• Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
• Life Is Beautiful
• Contact
• 12 Angry Men
• Close Encounters
• Raiders
• Empire
• LoTR
• Rear Window
• Shakespeare in Love
• Wargames
• Holiday Inn
• Beauty and the Beast
• Lost in Translation
• The Mummy Returns
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• the original War of the Worlds
• Dead Poets Society
• Roxanne
• Clue
• Abbott and Costello movies

Favorite Music

• Yes
• Genesis
• Steely Dan
• Pink Floyd
• Mostly Autumn
• Jadis
• Cowboy Junkies
• Renaissance
• any Finn brothers music
• John Young
• Porcupine Tree
• Aaron Copland
• Billie Holiday
• Dave Brubeck
• Tangerine Dream
• madrigals
• ambient
• chill
• Tears for Fears
• The Fixx
• Simply Red
• Wang Chung

Favorite Books

• Anna Karenina
• Dickens
• Verne
• Hemingway
• Thich Nhat Hanh
• Calvino
• The Wayward Bus
• Girl With a Pearl Earring
• I Was Amelia Earhart
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
• Mythago Wood
• A Natural History of the Senses
• I Touch the Earth The Earth Touches Me
• HGTG
• Cummings
• Kenyon
• Keats
• Hopkins
• Stafford
• Gillian Clarke

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