greeniezona

I'm a Cancer. I'm an INFP. I'm an environmentalist and cheapskate who loves finding ways to use "waste" objects. I'm a science geek, a book addict, and I manage a church camp in the wetlands of mid-Michigan for a living. And I love mail. Who doesn't?

Two Cow Garage, Slobberbone, Tegan & Sara, Ani DiFranco, Cheryl Wheeler, Tori Amos, Veda Hille, Girlyman, Eddie from Ohio, Paul Simon.

poetry: The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks, Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni, Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey

fiction: Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski, The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout, The Orphan's Tales in the Night Garden by Catherynne Valente, Dune by Frank Herbert, In Hoboken by Christian Bauman, Persuasion by Jane Austen

non-fiction: God After Darwin by John F. Haught, A New Christianity for a New World by John Shelby Spong, Killing the Buddha : A Heretic's Bible by Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau, Becoming a Man by Paul Monette, Sex Economy Freedom and Community by Wendell Berry, Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea, An Illustrated Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Blues for Cannibals by Charles Bowden

short story collections: The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits by Emma Donoghue, Girls! Girls! Girls! by Claire Zulkey, Beware of God by Shalom Auslander, Visigoth by Gary Amdahl

graphic novels: The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman, Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan

beading, upcycling crafts

Real Genius, 1776, The Fifth Element, Sense and Sensibility, Lord of the Rings, Monsoon Wedding, Dune, Stick It, The Station Agent

Firefly, Battlestar Gallactica, Deadwood, Project Runway, Scrubs

BEADS! Especially seed beads, whether shaped or round, from the tiniest of the tiny to the big ones. Especially Czech seed beads, which I have trouble finding in the area where I now live.

Purple, blue, green, silver. Dark reds. I'm trying to challenge myself to be more comfortable working with yellows and oranges, but I'm just not there yet.

Tea. Black. Especially chai, orange, fair trade or organic.

Turtles! Jellyfish & sea combs. Things that are nature inspired, especially things you'd find in the woods or wetlands of Michigan.

Fancy papers. Especially papers that are reclaimed from other sources.

Stickers! I also have a four-year-old who likes stickers, so kiddie stickers, more sophisticated stickers, hey, even political stickers (fit for flaming crazy liberals anyway) would be great.

Throwing things away. Cheap plastic crap.

Seed beads made in China (they're not as uniform as Japanese or Czech seed beads, which means I can't use them for bead stitching projects, which is most of what I do).

Decaffeinated teas. Most green teas (unless it's jasmine). Red tea. Yuck.

Excessive sentimentality, especially if it involves flags, angels, or babies.

I don't mind swearing, but I dislike vulgarity. Sexism & racism aren't funny.