 My favorite diaries:
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life-my-way profile - diary |
| comments: Life lived simply, honestly, and authentically, then recorded with grace. |
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madrigle profile - diary |
| comments: He is the Real Thing, that rare creature, an artist. Also, a sweet, sweet man, and a damned fine cook. |
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eros-archer profile - diary |
| comments: My boy. My phoenix boy. As close as I'll ever come to having a son. |
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geoffchaucer profile - diary |
| comments: Erudite, specific, and intriguing, whether Isaac is gay or not. |
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pasmonnom profile - diary |
| comments: Interesting, to say the least. |
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zeroreverb7 profile - diary |
| comments: Beautiful. Just beautiful. |
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beagle47 profile - diary |
| comments: Old (artists') home week. |
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annanotbob profile - diary |
| comments: Lovely and loving, and I am grateful. |
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keystroker profile - diary |
| comments: Old home week, again. |
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peachfront profile - diary |
| comments: Why didn't I have her on here in the first place? |
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strixia profile - diary |
| comments: The newest incarnation. |
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minstrelite profile - diary |
| comments: Strange bedfellows, and only one degree of separation at that. |
My favorite music: |
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Beethoven |
| comments: And Ravel and Prokofiev and Chopin and Rachmaninov and Bach and Brahms and Schubert and Mozart and Debussy and Vaughn-Williams and Copland and Schumann and Wagner and Strauss and . . . |
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Christine Lavin |
| comments: And David Wilcox, Patty Larkin, Cheryl Wheeler. You don't know what you're missing. |
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Liz Story |
| comments: All the evocative colors of George Winston, et al, but with real musical substance. |
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Rufus Wainwright |
| comments: "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" is a personal anthem. Plus I have a thing for that scruffy-boy look. I like David Mead, too. |
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Dire Straits |
| comments: If only for the "Brothers in Arms" album. Plus Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Linda Rondstadt, Billy Joel, Elton John. Would it surprise you to know that I was once voted "Most likely to remain hopelessly stuck in the 80's"? |
My favorite movies: |
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A Room with a View |
| comments: Perfection |
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Dangerous Liaisons |
| comments: Ditto |
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Sense and Sensibility |
| comments: Again: perfection. |
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The Big Chill |
| comments: That was me: South Carolina, great college friends, the whole nine yards. |
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My Life as a Dog |
| comments: That was me, too. And "Cinema Paradiso": that was me, too, again. |
My favorite authors: |
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William Shakespeare |
| comments: "Resolve you for more amazement." Always. |
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Iris Murdoch |
| comments: And A. S. Byatt, and Margaret Attwood, and Jane Austen, and Saul Bellow, and Ethan Canin, and Michael Chabon, and Beverly (yes) Cleary, and A.A. Milne, and Pat Conroy... |
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Robertson Davies |
| comments: And Charles Dickens, and Joan Didion, and William Faulkner, and Jonathan Safran Foer, and William Faulkner, and E.M. Forster, and Jim Grimsley... |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| comments: Ernest Hemingway, Homer, Garrison Keillor, John Irving, David Leavitt, Cormac McCarthy, Susan Minot, Toni Morrison... |
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Chaim Potok |
| comments: Carol Shields, J. D. Salinger, Susan Sontag, J.R.R. Tolkein, Leo Tolstoy, John Updike, Tom Stoppard, Thomas Wolfe, David Sedaris.... |
