...I am a shy
sort of person, full of contrasts. ..sometimes described as a "gregarious
recluse"--often have houseguests and dinner parties, but enjoy long
stretches of solitude...can be near-silent for weeks, then have fits
of non-stop talking...
I
live on the banks of Darby Creek,
in Delaware County Pennsylvania, near
Philadelphia,
adjacent to a bird sanctuary; it's very dramatic there
in
winter
I am a "convinced" (read "converted") member of the Religious
Society of Friends (read "Quakers"), coming to this by way of my
Methodist-minister
grandfather, who told me that heaven and hell are not in an afterlife,
but rather states-of-being we create on earth by our actions here: I
have met a great number of Friends who have been convincing models of
this...
I am the mother of
three
children--two are
graduates of Wesleyan
University, in 1992 and 1994, and now live in southern California, while
"
the baby" is Brown University
'01.
I like to sing, have
a tolerable voice, play an amateur folk guitar and a poor European-classical
piano,
(have an old Victorian upright )
and I am enthusiastic about dance from all over the world, all across
time
I have
several
dozen house-plants, some of which are more than a quarter-century
old.
I like to travel--especially
alone by car; have spent at least one night in 48 of the 50 states and
on 4 continents, but got
as far south as
the equator only in October 1996, on a trip to Kenya.I aim to get
to get to the other continents in the next couple of years...
I like to spend as much time as possible
by an ocean
I like to play around
with photography--keep a photographic family journal that begins in
the late nineteenth century with my
paternal
grandmother, my
maternal great-grandfather,
and
maternal great-grandmother,
and includes
my maternal grandfather,
posed with his new Chevy, ca. 1920,
my
own mother (she's the five-year-old standing with her family in
Clarksburg, MD), who also likes the ocean (
this
one is 1989, in New Jersey), and
my father,
as a young man, ca. 1910
I'm part of
a
big family, that has frequent reunions
I like to cook, bake a great peach pie,
like Mediterranean and Afro-Asian food
I'm pretty happy with
my needlework skills, once combined history-with-theatre to be costume-designer
for a summer Shakespeare theatre. Here you can see
my
daughter, wearing the dress I created for the prom a few years ago.
That's my 88-year-old mother sitting next to her.
I had a lot of fun driving
10,000 miles through the US in 1989,
pasting
state stickers on the back of my Subaru to commemorate each state
where I stayed, visiting with
my brother-in-law
in northern California, and having
my
photo taken in South Dakota, at the geographic center of the country
