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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 50, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • i make art.
  • i have a bfa in english and an mfa in painting.
  • From missouri valley, iowa.
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

appreciating all the little things. and feeling lucky just to get up each day.

ABOUT ME

i grew up on a farm. i like basketball, bicycling, tennis and bikram yoga. i like to eat organic foods. i try to watch one movie a day. my mom was a music teacher. ( she is retired)my dad was a farmer. ( he died four years ago)
my grandma will be 97 years old in august. i spend a lot of time in my garage trying to make my art. i have lived in san francisco since 2000. i had never seen the ocean before i came here. i love my friends.

PHILOSOPHY

treat others how you would like to be treated. and try to be compassionate.

Interests

  • arts
  • organic food
  • yoga
  • music
  • basketball
  • tennis
  • teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

robert altman.anything by david simon. mad men.
i really like weird black or death metal.
beatnuts. people under the stairs. neil young. bruce springsteen.
i read lots of books at the same time.
comic called "walking dead". biography of jfk. the gift by lewis hyde.
(this is some of what i am reading now)

Teach, Learn, Share

i could teach someone how to shoot a basketball.
and make cookies.

i'd like to learn how to take apart a bicycle and put it back together.

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