I'm a freelance health and science writer. I used to be an English major at University of Michigan and went to grad school for journalism at Columbia in New York. I'm married to another writer, Steve Knopper. We have a five-year-old daughter. We live in a 100-year-old Victorian house in Denver with two cats, one orange and one...
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I'm a freelance health and science writer. I used to be an English major at University of Michigan and went to grad school for journalism at Columbia in New York. I'm married to another writer, Steve Knopper. We have a five-year-old daughter. We live in a 100-year-old Victorian house in Denver with two cats, one orange and one black.
I've always used reading to escape. As a child, I had a favorite green velvet wingback chair. I would curl up in it for hours to read James and the Giant Peach, the Narnia books, The Hobbit, the Little House series and Catcher in the Rye. I saved all my books from childhood. Now I'm thrilled to be reading them to my daughter, Rose.
As a journalist, I appreciate literary nonfiction like In Cold Blood and Gay Talese. Cheever and Wallace Stegner also top my list. Studs Terkel is one of my idols. My husband and I once met him on a bus when we lived in Chicago.
These days, I have mom brain half the time and extreme tiredness the other half. But my book club friends and I manage to have some great discussions once a month. I really savor those gatherings.
As for music and TV, I used to purposely avoid having a TV. But one day, my Dad showed up with this huge TV in his arms. He was worried that I didn't have one. I'm not sure why. I kept it in the closet on a rolling cart in case I rented movies (I love the Godfather and the Sopranos). Then I got married, and now the TV is the centerpiece of our living room. My husband got me hooked on really dumb reality shows like "Beauty and the Geek." I also watch a lot of "Little House on the Prairie" re-runs after school with my daughter. I must confess, I have lust in my heart for Mr. Ingalls.
Steve and I think we were meant for each other because we both like the sappiest old country crooners like George Jones and the nastiest rappers like Ice Cube. My favorite genre is old-school rap from the 80s and super funky stuff like Parliament.
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