Shana

• Gender: Female
• Industry: Education
• Occupation: College literature instructor
• Location: Tennessee : United States

About Me

The blog is nonfiction... updated weekly-->often humorous, frequently serious, sometimes informative<--Important people (sometimes mentioned in the blogs) My love partner extraordinaire/husband (Terry), our wild woman child (Zoe), random students (never by name), various family and friends (some by name, some by alias, some anonymous, some deeply disguised), and random strangers. Important places: the whole planet.

Interests

• What I like and love and savor: spending time with Terry and Zoe (my best loves)
• shooting nerf basketball
• eating goldfish and cake
• kicking the ball around the yard
• swinging
• hitting plastic golf balls in the back yard
• helping Zoe slide
• jumping
• screaming "ahhhhh" while running in place
• and anything else a one year old might like to do
• practicing yoga
• taking breaks with friends (who make me laugh and give me space and like to take long lunches and long walks and have lengthy conversations)
• stories (reading-writing-and-telling them)
• places (traveling by plane and train and hiking)
• food (cooking and sampling)
• and images (drawing and taking photographs).

Favorite Movies

• Big Night
• Tampopo
• Shower
• Eat Drink Man Woman
• Life and Debt
• Rabbit Proof Fence
• Long Life Happiness and Prosperity
• Frida
• The Magdeleine Sisters
• Iron Jawed Angels
• Lolita
• My Left Foot
• Twelve Angry Men
• The Pillowbook

Favorite Books

• Books "The Woman Warrior" By Maxine Hong Kingston
• "Love Medicine" By Louise Erdrich
• "Arts of the Possible" By Adrienne Rich
• Alan Ginsberg's poetry
• "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
• "A Daughter of Isis" By Nawal El Sadaawi
• "Lolita" By Vladimir Nabakov
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr's work
• "Jitterbug Perfume" BY Tom Robbins
• "Love in the Time of Cholera" BY Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• "Paula" By Isabelle Allende
• "Refuge" By Terry Tempest Williams
• "The Bread Givers" By Anzia Yezierska
• "The Color Purple"
• "Black White and Jewish" By Rebecca Walker
• "The Red Tent" By Anita Diamant
• "Zami" By Audre Lorde
• "The Vagina Monologues" BY Eve Ensler
• the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching
• "Aura"
• the Diary of Frida Kahlo
• "Thirteen Stories" By Eudora Welty
• the poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye
• and the work of David Sedaris And from Children's Literature: the "Eloise" books by Kay Thompson
• the "Olivia" books by Ian Falconer
• "Where the Wild Things Are"
• "A Kiss for Little Bear"
• the "Madeline" books....

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