Am I mad? Yes. But the best people always are.

Favorite writers/poets (in no particular order): J.K. Rowling, Lois Lowry, Stephen King, William Shakespeare, Harper Lee, Dr. Seuss, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Ray Bradbury, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Michael Grant, Ned Vizzini, Rachel Cohn & David Levithan, Louis Sachar, Gregory Maguire, Cornelia Funke

Favorite works: Anything by the aforementioned writers, aside from Fahrenheit 451. That was painful, Ray.

Inspiration: Everything.

Things that I find enjoyable: political cartoons, classic Disney movies, reading books by firelight, music, growing plants, filming rain, the sound of wind rustling branches and leaves, old cash registers, educational lectures, childhood memories

Things that I deem unacceptable or annoying: teenage boys, high school nonsense, parental invasion of privacy (or any for that matter), hypocrisy, racism, sexism, any kind of discrimination, most animal euthanasia, our economy, genocide, spare change, any kind of change (aside from seasons)

Goals: stop global warming ( ), improve writing style ( ), get into a good college (check)