I'm an artist and writer. I'm mad about plastic cameras and mixed media. I am passionate about creative fiction but often I have to write fluff for lifestyle publications or product reviews..
I'm the head of the writing program at a local college.
I find a great deal of satisfaction trying to help people.
I enjoy my solitude as well as social opportunities like dinner parties and gallery openings.
I am as much an outdoors girl as I am cosmopolitan.
I love to read...
I love flowers...perennials and vines like bougainvillea & wisteria.
I choose rhinestones over diamonds---
I like second hand furniture---things with a history-character.
I like cats but I don't have one.
I think Vince Vaughn is just dreamy and I daydream about having dinner with him all the time.
Liam Nieson equally.
Ahhhh...Collin Firth ....my type if I had to have one.
My life has felt its worth by tortured painters and European jocks that confuse "your" and " you're" Whoever--I insist on a beautiful love story..
I don't expect to find this here but I feel that anything is possible.
I don't Facebook or Tweet...I think its tacky...I think we are getting furthur and furthur away from dealing with people directly and I think this is lame.
I'm progressive in many respects but with retro soul.
I eat 100% clean. Right now Paleo. I do cross training during the week. I do trail running on the weekend. I'm also training in krav maga.
All of this said, I'm very feminine. I spend most of the week in stilettos and lipstick.

I am satisfied with my life. I don't follow traditional timelines or have a list of expectations. What's important to me is the content and the life that comes alive in the content.
Something that has stirred me and the perception I linked with that emotion.
Accepting revelations along the path.
Learning to tell all I want to tell and say all I want to say.

Managing an umbrella in the wind and having to feng shui in a jiffy.
Making guacamole better than a Mexican housewife.
Recovery, grace, understanding, compassion and listening.
Descending a staircase in heels and burpees on asphalt.
Expression.
Positivity.
Artful revenge.

John Updike
Alice Walker
Flannery O Conner
Joyce Carol Oates
Tillie Olsen
Katharine Anne Porter
Lee Smith
Fitzgerald
Hemingway
John Milton
John Donne
Steinbeck
Marquez
Neruda
Teutonic literature

* love anything put to paper or a canvas by the Dutch or a Russian

Duchamp
Joseph Cornell
Kadinsky
Anything progressive & temporary
Kahlo
Japanese minimalism
Rinko Kawauchi
Sally Mann
Diane Arbus
Man Ray
William Wegman
Robert Mapplethorpe
Edward Weston
Nan Goldin
Paul Strand

Joy Division
The Smiths
Nick Cave
Fugazi
Dinosaur Jr
Leonard Cohen
Joanna Newsome
Patsy Cline
Paul Simon
Lady Blacksmith Mambazo
Desmond Dekker and the Aces
Lee Moses
Art Tatum
Nina Simone
Tribe Called Quest
Black Moon
Vivaldi
Debussy
Mendelssohn

Sophia Copola's films
Gus Van Sant as well...
Clint Eastwood --his films and his quiet confidence
Rabbit Proof Fence
City of God
Turtles Can Fly
Anything well written and well filmed..
Indie but not lame...hate David Lynch...hate hate Harmony Korine.
I am into soundtracks almost as much. Slumdog Millionaire ...
Another Day In Paradise

I relate to practically all of Meg Ryan's characters and I bullshit my way through every week by ripping off Melanie Griffiths lines from the movie "Working Girl"....

Dramas and hopeless romance are always in my queue.

Ethnic food
Cuban coffee
Flowering Jasmine Tea
Papayas & Avocados
I get excited about capers and quail eggs

I rarely drink but will on occasion ---- a nice Malbec and craft beers.
I enjoy a good soccer game...european teams hands down.

Good lighting
Under eye concealer
Humor
Movement
Beauty
Arrivals & Departures

Renovating an old home in Savannah...

I went to school there and am moving back in 2013.
I want to open a gallery/bakery....studio upstairs....baking at 6:00 a.m.....
old friends & new stories...
My version of the perfect life.

I enjoy dining out with friends but I prefer Saturday night outings. Fridays I like to unwind with a book and a long bath.

I was trail running the other Sunday....on the lake...well into the thick of the forrest...

I tripped...

two nuns in full habit helped me pick myself up.

They told me to be careful........

they weren't talking about my run....

I have little interest in the walking wounded, hidden agendas and Don Juans ...
I do not want a superficial relationship.
I like keen minds and enthusiastic flatterers...
I value substance and practicality above all else. Message me if you're a solid guy and perhaps live on the same page. You are happy with your life but want an uncommon connection. You take care of yourself, have class like Cary Grant and a seasoned coolness like a Beastie Boy. You see the good in mankind over the negative. You have an excellent sense of humor and laugh more with people than at them.

You live deliberately...