sarahrachel

I am a traveling nomad currently living in Memphis, Tennessee with my writer husband. We have three cats and live in a one bedroom apartment with about 1000 books.

Anything from the 1960s, soul, funk, African tribal, blues, indie rock

adrienne rich, vladimir nabokov, karl marx, leo tolstoy, sigmund freud, dorothy day, st. teresa de avila, margaret atwood, alice walker, thomas merton, thich n'hat hanh, mary rose o'reilley, slavoj zizek, noam chomsky, jhumpa lahiri, salman rushdie, ecclesiastes, desert ammas&abbas, barbara kingsolver, fyodor dostoyevsky, federico garcia lorca, anna banti, leonid tsypkin, victor serge, wendell berry, aleksandr solzhenitsyn, gabriel garcia marquez, mary oliver, sena jeter naslund, jeanette winterson, isabel allende, susan sontag

I'm a sucker for Jane Austen movies.

Here are some of my recent faves:

This Is It, An Education, Blue Velvet, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Factory Girl, Julie & Julia, Bleu

Pen & ink, watercolor, stamp-making, knitting, crochet, sewing, quilting, embroidery, papercutting

Fashion, photography, mermaids, pen & ink, saints, Dia de los Muertos, Cuba, Spain, France, 1800s, Marie Antoinette, embroidery, fabric, 1960s, Alice in Wonderland, Bridget Bardot, tiny watercolors, Scandinavian, fairy tales, animorphism, metroyshkas, birds, leaves, stamps, marine life

Sushi dates, Organic gardening, Old quilts, Flea markets, 1960s illustration, Micron pens, India ink in crazy colors, Depression era glass, Ear horns, Paper!, Dollhouses and miniatures, Victorian fashion, Stories from the sea, Whales, Finches, Linen, Animorphism, Orchids, lilies, roses, peonies, Lady Earl Grey tea, Pearls, Cameos, Rome, Latin America, Dia de los Muertos, Icons, Edie Sedgewick, Botanical prints, Typewriters

Anna Maria Horner, Heather Ross, Amy Butler, Lotta Jansdotter, Dottie Angel, Patricia Zapata, Heather Bailey, Sharilyn Wright, Heidi Kenney, Elsa Mora