The Queen B
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Homeschooling Mom! |
| Introduction | I'm passionate about the Catholic faith...I love gaining deeper insight into what it means to live a life of faith. I also LOVE theatre, visiting art galleries, live music... classical, rock, jazz, GOOD Christian/Catholic rock, expressing my creativity, old movies...especially musicals, show tunes , collecting records, rummaging in used book stores (ahhh...breathe deep the smell of dusty books...heaven!), antique hunting, wandering around NY (like a tourist, not like a homeless person), cooking, curling up next to the fire with a cozy book,Youth and Young Adult Ministry, sharing tea with friends, coffee in all it's glorious forms, traveling, the ocean, entertaining (I especially love the PLANNING of an event!), good wine and dirty martinis...and an ice cold gin and tonic in the summer, outer space, trying new foods,painting, drawing, art in all it's beautiful incarnations, singing with my sisters, laughing with Michaela and Erin until I'm wiping my tears. I think it's safe to say that I have a zest for living life to the fullest. |
| Interests | mothering, reading, watching classic movies, painting, drawing, singing, listening to good music, conversations with dear friends and family, homeschooling, decorating and home reno, taxiing children to various activities, ongoing faith study, learning latin with my daughter...and much more. No wonder I'm tired! |
| Favorite Movies | HOW to chose? The Sound of Music, Auntie Mame, Brigadoon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Singin' in the Rain, White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Barefoot in the Park, all Hitchcock's with Cary Grant, Sabrina (the original with Bogart, of course!), Daddy Long Legs, Star Wars...the first three made!...The Trouble with Angels, Please don't eat the Daisies, Gilda, Show Boat, Camelot, Oklahoma, Yours, Mine and Ours, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, My Fair Lady, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, Funny Face, It happened one Night, Father of the Bride (original with Liz Taylor), Brother Son, Sister Moon, Romeo and Juliet (Zefferelli's), Parent Trap (original), Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Pollyanna, ALL Gidget movies, Anne of Green Gables series, Gone with the Wind, Much Ado about Nothing, Only You, Beaches, How to Make an American Quilt, Steel Magnolias, The Mirror has Two Faces, Almost Famous, Practical Magic, all Harry Potters, Serenity, The Cronicles of Narnia, Annie, Akeelah and the Bee, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Wizard of Oz, X Men series, Superman the Movie (1st one), The Passion of the Christ, Mary Poppins, Disney's Snow White... Cinderella... Sleeping Beauty, Willy Wonka, The Princess Bride, Crossing Delancy, Immediate Family, Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, The Big Chill, Sixteen Candles, Lady Hawke, Ferris Bueller's Day Off...and many sci fi movies that I've seen and loved |
| Favorite Music | Puccini's La Boheme...and various other operas, classical music, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney, Billy Holiday, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Jobim, John Pizzarelli, Michael Buble, Mingus and Brubeck...and Coltraine, Andrea Bocelli, Bing Crosby, Ray Charles, The Andrew Sisters, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul and Mary, Carole King, Richie Havens, CSNY, Clapton, Bread, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, The Doobies, The Eagles, John Denver, James Taylor, Livingston Taylor (yeah, J.T.'s brother!), Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, The Beatles, The Moody Blues, Kaki King, Shawn Colvin, Indigo Girls, The Judds, Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael Card, Matt Maher, Susan Ashton, Sara Groves, Third Day, Gary Chapman, Cheri Keaggy, John Michael Talbot, Nichole Nordeman, Chris Rice, Danielle Rose, Tom Booth, Ginny Owens, Relient K, Michael Joncas, Fernando Ortega, Superchick(s), Sarah Hart, Tony Melendez, Casting Crowns, Newsboys, Irish Rovers, Mary Black, Ceili Rain, (most Irish music, especially Celtic women singers), Bonnie Raitt, Desree, India Arie, John Legend, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkle, Sting, Dave Matthews, The Carpenters, Barry Manilow, I LOVEEEE middle eastern music...and most anything my sisters sing! |
| Favorite Books | My favorite book in the world is Jane Eyre, closely followed by All Louisa May Alcott...especially Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom. Everyone should read Jane Austen, and I'm rather obsessed with (to varying degrees and depending on the day) novels from the 40's, 50's and early 60's, Ann Rivers Siddons novels (especially Hill Towns...amazing!), Lord of the Rings, Narnia series, The Well Trained Mind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, Story of a Soul, A Tree grows in Brooklyn, This Present Darkness, All Harry Potter books, The Mists of Avalon, The Silver Chalice, The Bells of St. Mary's, Lost Horizon, The Song of Bernadette, Troubadore for the Lord, ALL Rosamunde Piltcher (favorite contemporary novelist, hands down!), Dancing on my Grave, Anne of Green Gables series, all Little House books, Trixie Beldon series, Nancy Drew series, The #1 Ladies Detective Agency series, The Ladies of Convington series, most everything I've read about the Authurian Legend, and more books than there is space to list! "So many books, too little time!" |