amberscribe's profile

Eons member since

March 04, 2007

Gender

Female

Location

Detroit, MI

Hometown

Elaine, Arkansas (Birthplace)

Places I've been

Elaine, Arkansas (Birthplace) Memphis, Tennessee (ages 7-23) Detroit, Michigan (23- ) San Francisco, CA Albuquerque, NM Boston, MA New York, NY Watertown, NY Chicago, IL Cincinnati, OH Phoenix, AZ New Orleans, LA Atlanta. GA Rapid City, SD Bellingham, WA Raleigh, NC Macon, GA

Education

• Booker T. Washington High School, College Prep - 1959 to 1963
• LeMoyne College, English - 1963 to 1967
• University of Michigan, Reading Consultant - 1975 to 1978

Work

• Detroit Board of Education, Teacher - 1967 to 2005

More about me

I am a divorced mother of two, grandmother of three.  I am a retired English teacher who taught in the Detroit Public Schools for 35 years.  I am now tutoring two days a week in the same school system,

Activities

Reading, photography, Scrabble, flea markets, movies, travel

Favorite Charities

United Negro College Fund (UNCF), Heifer International, UNICEF, Amnesty International, ACLU, Habitat for Humanity, Doctors without Borders,

Favorite Music

Rhythm and Blues, especially Motown, Reggae, Show Tunes, Classical, Jazz and Blues. Favorite Artists--Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind and Fire, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Etta James. Lou Rawls, India.Arie, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, Outkast, Erica Badu, Andrew Lloyd Webber,

Favorite TV Shows

Big Love, The Wire, Friday Night Lights, The Apprentice, the Biggest Loser, Deal or No Deal, Meet the Press, Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Ugly Betty, 60 Minutes, Family Feud.

Favorite Movies

The Great Debaters, School Daze, The Shawshank Redemption, Pretty Woman, The Big Chill, Independence Day, Excalibur, Anne of the Thousand Days, Dirty Dancing, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Made in America, Malcolm X, Brokeback Mountain, The Gold Rush, The Chase (Marlon Brando), On the Waterfront, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pan's Labyrinth, The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve Mc Queen), Stagecoach, The Sound of Music, Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera, Closer, Good Will Hunting, Mrs. Doubtfire, Sophie's Choice, Cooley High, A Time to Kill, Jurassic Park, An Officer and a Gentleman, Face/Off, Akeelah and the Bee, Juno, What's Love Got to Do With It?, The Usual Suspects, Rebecca, Notorious, Spellbound, The Wrath of Khan, Glory.

Favorite Books

Jubilee, The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, A Time to Kill, Ride Out Singing, Rebecca, Black Boy, Native Son, A Raisin in the Sun (Play), Ivanhoe, The Crucible (Play), The Harry Potter Books(7), The Deadly Series by Brenda Joyce, Gone with the Wind, After the Night, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Writer's Project, Teacher Man, Dreams of My Father, Joshua Son of None, Jurassic Park, Coma, Toxin, The Celestine Prophecy, Roots, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Prince and the Pauper, The Catcher in the Rye, Morte D'Arthur, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Places You Will Go, Up from Slavery, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Clotel, Dopefiend, Starlit Surrender,

Favorite Quotes

"To be or not to be, that is the question.", There is a tide in the affairs of men ...", The fault , dear Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings.", "What happens to a dream deferred?", "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

Favorite People

Nelson Mandela, Jay Leno, Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama, Denzel Washington, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Al Gore, John McCain, Jennifer Granholm, Robert Ficano, Bill Clinton, Warren Evans, Halle Berry

Favorite Places

San Francisco, Vancouver, Boston, New York City, The Detroit Institute of Art, Chicago Museum, Belle Isle Park in Detroit, MI, Ann Arbor , MI, Northville, Mi, Frankenmuth, Mi, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, San Juan Puerto Rico,

Favorite Animals

All creatures great and small (except snakes).

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