Female |
September 8 1945 |
N.E.TEXAS, Town square, all-American small town. |
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. |
Fiction. Writing a book of short stories. Maybe a novella. maybe a novel. Or maybe just a long chatty letter to myself. |
Short story fiction; humorous, romantic comedy, folksy tales with lots of folksy dialogue, idioms and vernacular. |
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). |
majredick.com |
Short stories; humor. Intrigue, spy thrillers, police detective, drama, Native American writers & stories |
Whatever I'm reading right now. If it's not a great, favored book to me, I don't listen to it. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |