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Gender
Female
Birthday
September 8 1945
Location
N.E.TEXAS, Town square, all-American small town.
About Me
Legally blind since brain tumor in 2008. Several short stories about this experience are in my portfolio. Some people think I'm funny; I know I do.
Type of Writer
Fiction. Writing a book of short stories. Maybe a novella. maybe a novel. Or maybe just a long chatty letter to myself.
Writing Style
Short story fiction; humorous, romantic comedy, folksy tales with lots of folksy dialogue, idioms and vernacular.
Interests
Writing; listening to talking books, church activities; garden club, Writer's Guild, artsy-craftsy; cooking; family historian. I choose to think of myself as a raconteur and humorist. (I said choose).
My Blog
majredick.com
Favorite Genres
Short stories; humor. Intrigue, spy thrillers, police detective, drama, Native American writers & stories
Favorite Books
Whatever I'm reading right now. If it's not a great, favored book to me, I don't listen to it.
Favorite Authors
JOHN LESCROART, Ernest Hemingway; James Michener; Eudora Welty; Robert B. Parker; Clyde Edgerton; Cormac McCarthy, Kinky Friedman, David Baldacci, John leCarre, Nelson DeMille, Frederic Forsyth, Kirk Mitchell, Scott Momaday, and of course, me.
Favorite Poets
Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Robert Service, e.e.cummings, Shakespeare's Sonnets. Currently I'm looking at Molly Peacock, Doug Rainbow (from WDC), Margo Berdeshevsky (from Paris),Mary Oliver.
Favorite Quote
The Great Path has no gate, Thousands of roads enter it. When one passes through this gateless gate He walks freely between Heaven and Earth. The Lessons of Zen
Favorite Music
Some classical; old-style country; rock & roll; jazz; blues. Big Band; Elvis, Jerry Lee, Willie. The Hanks. The Mavericks. Leon Redbone. Jimmy Buffet. Aaron Neville, Harry Connick, Jr. The Everly Brothers. She goes on...and on..and on.
Favorite Movies
To Kill a Mockingbird; The Cowboy and the Lady;Smoke Signals; Dancer,Texas pop. 81; Baghdad Cafe, and all Clint Eastwood stuff. Jackie Chan stuff. Old Burt Lancaster movies, MARX BROTHERS MOVIES, oh yeah. Some more Marx Brothers movies.
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