Monday, January 12, 2009

Sixteen Things


This is from my Facebook page...it is a silly Facebook thing that gets passed around. How about if you comment by writing 16 things about yourself?

SIXTEEN THINGS

1. When I was 15 or so (1969?), my birthday present from my sister, Sarah, was to go to the French film festival in Hollywood, and at the first film I saw Joni Mitchell.

2. I was made to go outside and "hold up a pole" in 7th grade, because I refused to salute the flag. (big surprise. eh?) David Harris wrote to me from prison. (Diamonds and Rust)

3. I ran away from home when I was 16, got arrested by a cop in Kingman, Arizona, who would have let met go if I screwed him. My folks came to pick me up and a week later, let me go to the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, where I did all sorts of things.

4. I fell in love for the first time when I was 14.

5. My sister saved my life when I was young, and now I save hers. (sometimes)

6. I used to go topless on the beaches of Venice, California.

7. I have a Froggy Bottom Guitar and had guitar lessons...

8. I loved my dad, who had huge blue eyes, was born with congenital cataracts that weren't discovered until he was 5 years old and killed himself when he was 63, which is the exact age that Ernest Hemingway shot himself. One if my friend's aunts was the third wife of Hemingway.

9. My best friend in grammar school, Lois, is a lawyer in Fullerton. We used to take her German Shepard, Maria, with us everywhere. One time, Janice Joplin asked us to go buy her some beer, but we couldn't because we were only like 14 or so.

10. I had Thanksgiving dinner with Bonnie Raitt.

11. I was a midwife for many years and went to more than 200 births. Sometimes I miss that middle of the night stillness.

12. I love watching House.

13. I lived in France for almost a year and never had one glass of wine, nor one éclair

14. I still have a huge crush on Meryl Streep and Susan Sarandon.

15. I used to write poetry, kind of, and wrote the lyrics to two songs that have been recorded. And have two or three secret blogs.

16. I was married to a French man named Pierre Horny, who was from Lunéville, France..yep that's Pierre Horny from Lunéville.

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