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- Third of four daughters, raised in a rural area outside of a small town. Now living in a moderately large city, making media and immersed in other people's media. Finally cleaning out the filing cabinet and loading its contents to the cloud.
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Recent Favorites
- 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
- At Home by Bill Bryson
- The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
- CARtoons by Andy Singer with Randy Ghent.
- The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston
- Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky.
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris
All-time Favorites
- Alison Bechdel
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Octavia Butler
- Daily newspapers
- Discover magazine
- Growing Power
- Hamilton Wood Type Museum
- Heart of the Beast Theater
- Kohler Art Center
- Lyda Morehouse
- Steven Pinker
- Public radio
- Ellen Raskin
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Clay Shirky
- Rosemary Sutcliff
Future Favorites?
- The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner
- Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter
- Eaarth by Bill McKibben
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Just Food by James E. McWilliams
- The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
- Manufacturing Depression by Gary Greenberg
- Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Bliss
- The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey Sachs
- Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- The Unidentified by Rae Mariz
- The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
- Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
- Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Nabhan
- The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Favorite Thought-Provokers
- 1491 by Charles C. Mann
- Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
- Citizens of the Empire by Robert Jensen
- Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
- Collapse by Jared Diamond
- Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
- Feed by M.T. Anderson
- How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
- Nurture Shock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt
Guilty Pleasures
- Ian Rankin's John Rebus novels
- Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series
- Entertainment Weekly
- George R.R. Martin
- S.M. Stirling's alternate histories
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