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About you

Age:

Locations

City:

Berkeley

State:

California

Where did you grow up?:

Midwest

Family

Describe your immediate household:

Me, 3 cats. Lots of books and music. Birds outside.

How many children do you have?:

none

How many grandchildren?:

Any great-grandchildren?:

none

More about you - details

Describe some of the important experiences of your life:

Traveling across the US by myself (alone) in the early 70s. Following my heart's desire... no particular career path: office work, library work, zoo keeper, cashier, artist model.

List your most inspiring heroes.:

Barbra Streisand: for her enormous talent, keeping her name, her nose, and being herself, and setting an example for many young women coming of age in the late 60s. For the current world, Hillary Rodham Clinton. A woman who has done so much in her own right!!! On her own, and continues to set an example for people all over the world.

List your favorite movies.:

Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Casablanca, Annie Hall, Citizen Kane, Wage of Fear, Cinema Paradiso, Lawrence of Arabia, ... ask me again tomorrow... perhaps the list will be different then!

List the most recent books you have read.:

My favorite authors are Pat Conroy, Paul Auster, Herman Melville, .... well, there are many others, but those are the ones that come to mind right now.

Who are your favorite musicians?:

Sergio Mendes, Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Leo Kottke, Van Morrison, the Eagles, .... many more too.

Where would you most like to travel?:

More of Italy!

What is your educational background?:

B.A. plus additional coursework.

List the most interesting people you have known or met.:

Barbra Streisand, Pat Conroy, and all my friends.

What organizations do you belong to?:

AARP! ACLU.

If you had an extra $100,000 to give away, what would you do?:

Oh! Don't I wish. In quarters it would go to: Southern Poverty Law Center, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, International Federation of Animal Welfare.

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