LauraJWRyan's profile

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Relationship

Married. Interested in meeting people for networking

Hometown

Lyons New York

Places I've been

Cazenovia, New York Syracuse, New York Lafayette, New York

Education

• Syracuse University, Painting - 1982 to 1984

Work

• SUART Galleries, Registrar - 1989 to 2009

More about me

I'm an artist, a writer, and I live in an old farmhouse on top of a windswept hill with my Fred, our son, five cats, and one dog named Max.

Activities

Painting, drawing, writing, gardening, blogging, bird watching, cats, dogs, horses/horseback riding.

Favorite Charities

PBS, NPR, Food Bank of CNY, ASPCA

Favorite Music

Ani DiFranco, Tori Amos, Beethoven, Florence and the Machine, Metric, Garbage, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan, Moby, Mute Math, Balbec, Rusted Root, Patty Griffin, Melissa Ferrick, Paula Cole, U2, Indigo Girls, Cowboy Junkies, Rancid, Tracy Bonham, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Liz Phair, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, Sinead O'Connor, Pretenders, Copland, Dave Mathews, Feist, Portishead, and the Grateful Dead...just to name a few.

Favorite TV Shows

Firefly, Twin Peaks, Nova, Front Line, Masterpiece Theatre (and Mystery), Nature, As Time Goes By, Monarch of the Glen

Favorite Movies

To Kill a Mockingbird, Out of Africa, The English Patient, Chocolat, Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead, Suddenly Last Summer (Liz Taylor), Gaslight, Rear Window, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Thing (John Carpenter), The Day the Earth Stood Still, Harvey, Harry and Tonto

Favorite Books

To Kill a Mockingbird, Bellefleur, Wonderland, them, The Secret History, Chantepleure, The Master and Margarita, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Idiot, The Time Traveler's Wife, East of Eden

Favorite Places

Home.

Favorite Animals

Horses, cats, dogs (not necessarily in that order), birds and most any living creature, even certain bugs are okay.

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