Thanks alot Stowe and Jesse…sheesh…:)
The meme is stuff you may not know about me. I’m pretty transparent, so I’d assume there isn’t much you don’t know. Lemme try:
- My Mom & Dad call me ‘Dolly’ – which comes from ‘Dollface’…and I don’t know where that comes from other than my mom used to sing, “You’re a dollface child, sitting in the water, a dollface child, doing what she aughter…” to a song that, I believe, is about a frog.
- I hate onions.
- I ran away from home when I was 16, determined to venture out into the world on my own. I did…but my parents still helped me out
from time to time*ahem* alot (you are right, mom) - I have a B.A. in Communications & Culture (cultures concentrated on: Native North America & Gender) with a minor in Marketing. I wanted to be an academic and love research. Probably the reason I am focused on people before $$.
- At the age of 16, I fell in love with old jazz in the styling of Cole Porter, Benny Goodman, Gershwin et al. I always wish that I could have learnt to play jazz clarinet.
There you go. Now it’s time for me to torture others: Amy Muller, Donna Tocci, Colin Henderson, Eric Mattson and Ivan Storck.
It’s not too late to learn to play jazz clarinet! I had always fancied learning to play the cello, and figured I would do it one day when I retired. Then I went to see Yo-Yo Ma in concert and decided during intermission to just do it. So at the age of 37, I started learning to play, despite the facts that I had zero extra time and that it was incredibly difficult (I had grown up playing the piano, which helped only because I could at least read music). I’m still taking lessons, though not practicing often enough, and am glad that I took the plunge. Maybe we can duet together when you get around to it.
Tara, the lyrics you use for Dollface remind me of a song Burl Ives used to sing, called Little White Duck. And if memory serves me right, I first heard it on an album called Mr Froggie went a Courting, which is where your Frog memory probably comes from.
but the song is about a duck. Lyrics available on Google.