The Tumbleweed Chronicles

Favorites

Books: The History of Love, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated, The Secret History, The Harry Potter Series, The Flavia de Luce Series, The Virgin Suicides,
Writers: Jonathan Safran Foer, Rainer Maria Rilke, Haruki Murakami…
Storyteller: Garrison Keillor 

Scientists & Intellectuals: Prof. Brian Cox, Steven Fry 

Illustrators: Sarah McNeil, Lizzy Stewart, Julianna Swaney, Katy Smail, Yee Von Chan, Clare Owen, Ayco, The Little Fox, Catherine Campbell, milk-eyed, Devon Smith

Films: Romeo + Juliet, Amelie, The Royal Tenenbaums, Harold and Maude, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, The Fall, Dead Poets Society

Things: ghost stories, woodland animals, down comforters, good books, vanilla caramel creme coffee, tea, crumpets, sunshine, peachy pink, falling snow, growing herbs, good friends, nightswimming, thunderstorms, psychology (I have a degree in this), beautiful memories (I should have a degree in this), cryptozoology, castles, soft wool sweaters, lovely dresses, long hair, dreams, wild landscapes, pretty illustrations, flowery prose, apple crumble, peach schnapps, & coconut rum.

Something you should know about me: I am prone to furious & sometimes inexplicable obsessions that come on suddenly, stay for a time, and leave as quickly as they came.

Current obsessive phase(s): pubic radio & news from lake wobegon