Back by popular demand… 10 fun facts about me
- I always use the Oxford comma (and hate that it’s not a thing in German).
- I write morning pages every day (à la The Artist’s Way).
- My high school softball team won the 2002 NYC championship, and I was the city’s Player of the Year!
- I have a first-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
- I’ve walked from Vienna to Mariazell (a 120km pilgrimage route), twice.
- I love writers who make language pulse: poets, novelists, truth-tellers such as Andrea Gibson, Toni Morrison, Cheryl Strayed, Alison Bechdel, Marilyn French, Adrienne Rich, Ani Difranco, Audre Lorde, Byron Katie, Miranda July, Jeanette Winterson, Mary Oliver, Isabel Allende, Yaa Gyasi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Glennon Doyle, …
- At age 19, I stopped watching TV and movies for a while because the gender norms were so insidious. It was an excellent detox for my still-developing brain (probably inspired by Inga Muscio’s book Cunt).
- I find lots of inspiration in trees.
- I’m a year-round bike rider. <3
- I have a super cool seven-year-old kiddo <3