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Background & Education
"Genius is
childhood recaptured at will." (Baudelaire)
Hometown:
Cincinnati, Ohio (Mt. Carmel/Eastgate area)
High School:
Glen Este (Clermont County), class of 1988
College:
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), class of 1992
Degree:
B.A. in Religion and English Literature
Religious Inclinations
"Great
God! I'd rather be a Pagan...."
Greco-eclectic
polyagnostic panentheist rational/ecstatic chthonic Pagan &
aspiring maenad. (What?)
Deity-forms of
particular importance to me include Demeter,
Persephone, Dionysos,
Ariadne, Gaia, Hecate, the Green
Man, John Barleycorn, Aphrodite,
and St. Francis.
Literature, Art,
Music, Films
Five Beloved
Books, age 10:
The
Last Unicorn
(Peter S. Beagle)
Julie
of the Wolves
(Jean Craighead George)
The
Secret Garden
(Francis Hodgson Burnett)
Watership
Down
(Richard Adams)
Anne
of Avonlea
(L.M. Montgomery)
Five Beloved
Books, age 15:
The
Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
To
Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Prince
Ombra
(Roderick MacLeish)
Gone
With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
The
Haunting of Hill House
(Shirley Jackson)
Five Beloved
Books, age 20:
Tess
of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Catmagic
(Whitley Strieber)
Fire
From Heaven
(Mary Renault)
Reinventing
Eve (Kim Chernin)
The
Color Purple (Alice Walker)
Five Beloved
Books, age 25:
The
King Must Die
(Mary Renault)
Harvest
Home (Thomas Tryon)
Lake
Wobegon Days (Garrison Keillor)
Origins
of the Sacred
(Dudley Young)
The
Greek Myths (Robert Graves)
Five Beloved
Books, age 30:
Pagan
Grace
(Ginette Paris)
The
Bloody Chamber (Angela Carter)
Zorba
the Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis)
The
Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
J.W.
Waterhouse (Anthony Hobson)
Five Beloved
Books, age 35:
I'd better
update this.
Five Beloved
Books, age 40:
Ditto...
Favorite Painters:
Sulamith
Wulfing, Herbert James Draper,
William Adolphe Bouguereau, John
William Waterhouse, Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, Edward
Robert Hughes, Hon. John Collier,
John
William Godward,
Sir
Lawrence Alma-Tadema,
Evelyn de Morgan, Edouard
Bisson,
Works of art on
the walls of my home:
Love
Among the Ruins (Sir Edward Burne-Jones)
Autumn
1910 (John William Godward)
The
Shrine (John William Waterhouse)
The
Love Potion (Evelyn De Morgan)
Dreaming
At The Windowsill (August Siegert)
Dolce
Far Niente (John William Godward)
L'Autumne
(Henri Lafosse)
Falling Leaf (Sulamith
Wulfing)
Woman of the Sidhe (Helena
Nelson-Reed)
Favorite Music:
Steeleye
Span,
Owain Phyfe, Crosby
Stills Nash & Young,
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Donovan,
Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie
Nicks, Duran Duran, Vivaldi, Handel, Grieg, G. Gershwin, Dead
Can Dance,
Portishead, Alanis Morissette
Favorite Films
of All Time (listed in release date order):
Gone
With the Wind, West Side Story, Brother
Sun Sister Moon, The Wicker Man,
Picnic at Hanging Rock, The
Shining, Dragonslayer,
Amadeus, The
Company of Wolves, Ferris
Bueller's Day Off, Bull
Durham, sex lies & videotape, Benny
& Joon, Interview With the Vampire,
Gladiator,
The
Fellowship of the Ring, Mulholland
Drive, Donnie
Darko
Where I've Been,
Where I'm Going
Overseas places visited:
Greece, Austria, Germany, Caribbean
Farthest north visited:
tip of James Bay, Ontario, Canada (Moosonee)
Farthest east:
the island of Santorini (Fira) in the Aegean Sea (Greece)
Farthest south:
St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Farthest west:
Houston, TX (thanks Gretchyn!)
Places I'd
especially like to see:
New Orleans, Bali,
Macedonia, England, California, Russia, Roumania, Spain
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