Sarah

Swarthmore College (English lit), Brandeis U (MA sociology), Simmons College (MSW)

social worker/therapist

natl assn of socialworkers, cambridgeinsightmeditationcenter, broadwaybicycleschool

meditation, bicycling, chatting, music, movies, art, open studios, reading, more bicycling, more meditation, esp weeklong silent retreats

The Spiral Staircase, The Poisonwood Bible. have a love-hate relationship with the New Yorker. Some faves: Franny and Zooey, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mary Oliver, various buddhist writers, social and psych theory, Toni Morrison, Thomas Mann. . .

Trust (hal hartley), State and Main (anything by Mamet), Reds, Love and Death, Little Miss Sunshine, The Royal Tennenbaums, Donnie Darko, Amelie, American Splendor, American Beauty, Sat Night Fever, The Squid and the Whale, All About Eve, Pandora's Box, The Philadelphia Story, The Rutles, Rosencranz & Guildenstern, Crouching Tiger, The Celebration (anything by the dogma95 collective)

PINBACK, Swell, Thievery Corporation, Moby, Cold Play, Eliot Smith, the White Stripes, Deva Premal, Magnetic Fields, Stereolab, Air, REM, The Beatles, Neil Young, Van Morrison, X, Beck, Eno, Handel's Messiah, would like to learn more about ambient/electronica/jazz/world

trying to avoid too much here, but. . .PBS, Arrested Development, Six Feet Under

I have been practicing buddhist meditation for some time now. This practice is probably my best feature, that and a few great quirky friends. Got one of those fancy educations too-- which might be my worst feature, actually. Working more on the heart lately. Relatively new to social work. Happy to be out of grad school.

Interested in talking to others in the mental health/addictions field, particularly regarding running creative, novel kinds of groups. And maybe collaborate or offer support for writing endeavours- some of this stuff just has to get documented. Also, not sure I can still play, but maybe a tennis partner?