HAE's profile

Eons member since

Feb 09, 2007

Age, Gender

60, Female

Hometown

Philadelphia, PA

Places I've been

Lower 48 states, Canada and Mexico.

Education

• H.M. King High School, English, art - 1964 to 1965
• Davis & Elkins College, Literature - 1967 to 1973
• Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism, Writing - 1987 to 1990

More about me

Editor * Writer: Fiction, nonfiction, feature articles, poetry, web copy & infinite e-mails, IMs & posts. * Photograph & Draw landscapes in colored pencil — mostly West Virginia & New Mexico. * Believe in peace, justice, equality, individual rights, universal health care, God, grace, evolution, intuition, reincarnation, compassion, my son . . . 

Former senior editor, newsletter editor, staff writer & university reporter, legal aid paralegal, poetry & art publication editor, store manager, secretary, waitress, dishwasher, front desk clerk.  

Published nonfiction, fiction, poetry, art & photography. * Won awards for fiction, short story collection and children's book (1990–1998) * Poetry in Backcountry (1977–1990) & Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry 1950–1999 (2000) * Short stories in hoi polloi (2007), Seeking the Swan (2008) & Appalachian Writers Guild Anthology MMVlll (2008): 

Seeking the Swan, West Virginia Writers, Inc. — http://www.wvwriters.org/store.html

Wild Sweet Notes — http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Sweet-Notes-Virginia-1950-1999/dp/0967605121

hoi polloi, Dog Days Press —  http://www.dogdayspress.com/

Favorite Movies

And the Band Played On * Little Miss Sunshine * To Die For * All of Me * The China Syndrome * Chinatown * Frida * Big * Prizzi's Honor * Silkwood * Yellow Submarine * Love movies.

Favorite TV Shows

Law and Order * Jon Stewart Show * Perry Mason * DaVinci's Inquest * Cold Case * Prime Suspect * and other detective stories, mysteries, etc.

Activities

writing, drawing, photography, travel, Internet, cats

Favorite Music

Blues & classic rock * Bach * many types

Favorite Books

Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley; The Hot Zone, Richard Preston; A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson; Stuart Little, E.B. White; The Rescuers, Margery Sharp.

Favorite Quotes

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." — Aristotle * "Make the world a better place because you have lived in it." — Edgar Cayce * "All books need good editing and pictures." — HAE :)

Favorite Places

Ghost Ranch, Abiqui, New Mexico * Bandelier, New Mexico * Elkins, West Virginia * Bryce Canyon, Utah

Favorite Animals

Cat but I have a soft spot for most animals including small rodents and preying mantis.

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