Inspired by the 19th-century parlor game and regular Vanity Fair feature. If you want to play along, leave yours (or a link to yours) in the comments!
1. Where would you like to live?
Where I am suits me just fine. Of course, I'd take a villa in Tuscany in the summers.
2. What is your favorite occupation?
Being a domestic goddess.
3. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Romantically? The desire to take care of his partner. Platonically? Same as everyone else, a sense of humor.
4. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
A sense of the ridiculous.
5. What do you most value in your friends?
Humor, loyalty, forgiveness.
6. Who are your favorite writers?
John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Alice Munro.
7. Who are your heroes in real life?
Dolly Parton.
8. What is it that you most dislike?
Hypocrisy.
9. How would you like to die?
On a blanket under an apple tree in bloom.
10. What is your motto?
“We are here on this earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.” ---Kurt Vonnegut
(15 down, 85 to go.)
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1. Where would you like to live?
ReplyDeletein a well-lit, quiet house with a large porch, fireplaces, and woods large enough to let the dogs outside without having to worry about them, preferable near the lake.
2. What is your favorite occupation?
my occupation ~ self-employed artist/ caretaker of the house/ interior decorator/ cook/ animal lover/ poet/ bringer of domestic happinesses.
3. What is the quality you most like in a man?
height.
no, really, a sense of the depths underneath the ordinary. and a great sense of humor.
4. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
the same. :)
5. What do you most value in your friends?
a sense of confidence and love in and for themselves
6. Who are your favorite writers?
May Sarton, James Herriot, Marlena de Blasi, Pablo Neruda (poetry), Anne Truitt (Turn), Dorothy Gilman (A New Kind of Country)...
7. Who are your heroes in real life?
my grandmother, the actors Imelda Staunton and Helen Mirren, the artists Sarah MccEaneney and Kiki Smith
8. What is it that you most dislike?
fear and old sticky habits
9. How would you like to die?
old, healthy and in my cabin in the mountains
10. What is your motto?
This too shall pass.