Donna OShaughnessy

My blogs

• O'Shaughnessy Writes
• The Poor Farm
• The Midlife Farmwife

Blogs I follow

• The Midlife Farmwife
• this farm life

About me

Gender	FEMALE
Occupation	Writer, Homesteader, Yaya
Location	Saunemin, Illinois 61769, United States
Introduction	Writer, Homesteader, Yaya
Interests	Novel writing, Soapmaking, Baths without interruptions, Poetry, Being Yaya growing enough food to keep us from starving
Favorite Movies	Wizard of Oz (more and more I understand the witch), The Big Chill (who knows who played the corpse ?), Life Aquatic (I did too play vollyball with Bill Murray), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Terms of Endearment (Mother-in-Laws unite), Two Weeks with Sally Field and This is My Father, with Aiden Quinn. Ok, ANYTHING with Aiden Quinn.
Favorite Music	All music played between 1968-1978 on WLS radio except Abba, Air Supply and Captain and Tenille. "Muskrat Love" is NOT music. George Winston but only in December. Glen Hansard, Hozier, Ed Sherrin, Damien Rice and Alexi Murdoch
Favorite Books	The Blackwater Lightship, Trinity, Black Beauty, Horton Hears a Who, The Stand, Let Freedom Ring, The Foxfire Books, Maccabees Book 1 and 2, The Memory Keepers Daughter, The Gathering, The Good Soldier and Poetry by Yeats, Keats, Sexton, Synge, Langston Hughes & Sean O'Riodain

What is sustainable really? Is the corporate officer who goes to his office every day and brings home the money needed to shelter, feed and protect his family any less sustainable than a homesteader? Who is to judge? OK. Maybe I will.