The Five Questions

Genia has tagged me for an interview and here's the requisite five questions. Below each question, you'll find my responses.

1. If you could turn back time and spend an afternoon with a family member now passed, who would it be and what would you talk about?

Let's see . . . I guess it would have to be my great-grand mother, my father's father's mother. I would love to sit down with her and get all those recipes from her as father says she loved to cook. And, I'd like to find out from her what it was like to live in segregated Virginia as a woman who could have passed as a white person.

2. East Coast or West Coast? Why?

East Coast. I'm used to the fast pace of life. Plus, there's not as many earthquakes or volcanoes out here.

3. Given the opportunity to travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? What would you look for there?

My first choice would be Russia. I'd want to visit the churches and monasteries, and visit the palaces where Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Tsaritsa Alexandra lived.

4. (This one is from G1 for me, it's a great question!) Write the opening paragraph to your autobiography. (5 line minimum. Be creative.)

“I cannot be pigeonholed because during the course of my life, I have opened myself to new experiences, and took what I liked and made it a part of my own culture. Growing up in Maryland as a deaf woman, of Black, White and Indian descent, I learned how to function in a hearing world. Because my parents wanted me to learn to survive on my own, I acquired a love of reading and consider written English as my first language. I love history and am a very curious person, so I read all I could about different religions, and this led me to the Orthodox Faith, in part through falling in love with the Russian culture, thus awakening my desire to learn the Russian language so I can read Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev in the original language. Someday I want to live in Europe for six months and travel all over, visiting the places that I have only read about and paying respect at the graves of my favorite historical figures.”

Now, was that creative, or what?

5. What is your favorite item to knit?

That's a hard question to answer, because I like to knit just about anything. I'll venture to say, though, that Fair Isle vests and sweaters are my favorite items, because I like watching the colors change and pattern emerge and knitting at a fine gauge prolongs the experience.

6. Bonus Question: As a child what was your favorite Saturday morning program?

I remember watching that cartoon of Coyote and the Roadrunner. It was really amusing to watch the Roadrunner constantly outwit the Coyote. Tom and Jerry also falls into this catalog. Sorry . . . I couldn't pick just one.

Now, I gotta think up a few questions for my interview target(s). Heh, heh . . .