Alison

St Vincent Pallotti High Schoo, Attended 1989 - 1993, Class of 1993

University of Maryland, College Park, BAs in Government & Women's Studies; CCSF, certificate in Drug & Alcohol counseling, in progress; CIIS, MA in Integral Counseling Psychology.

California Institute of Integral Studies, Attended 2007 - Present, Master's Degree, MA in Integral Counseling Psychology (MFT)
University of Maryland - College Park, Attended - , Class of , Other

Student. Progrsam Assistant.Editor.

Simone, Jacqui, and Finn; ICP

Surprises. Awareness. Seattle. Swiss chard. Dinner parties. Thinking about spaces. Reiki and other forms of bodywork, Macs, making home, nostalgia, text/subtext/intertext, photoshoots at the palace, re-connecting, skill exchanges, psychology, accents, books and more books, ideas, learning how to make things, my kitchen, my roommate's dog, sf-pdx-nyc-dc and back again, going back to school, Burger Joint, Russian River weekends, St. Francis check-ins with Jacqui, live music--in the living room, studying (no, really)

The Ghost Map, Susan Sontag, A Ship Made of Paper, The Kite Runner, Mark Kurlansky, Michael Pollan, Dorothy Allison, Huraki Murakami, old Joyce Carol Oates, A History of Salt, Foucault and other esoteric French theorists, Donna Haraway, Nancy Mitford (best biographies ever), Harry Potter, Susan Sontag, music writing when it's good, psychology books, cookbooks, etc, etc. I also like magazines: Scientific American Mind, Psychology Today, Psychotherapy Networker, The New Yorker, Cook's Illustrated, Gastronomy, and Time are my favorites.

IMMACULATE CONFESSION, Juno, Everything is Illuminated, Dark Days, Walk the Line, Henry & June, Angels in America, But I'm a Cheerleader, Ghost World, girlhood, anything Almodovar--especially Bad Education, Ma Vie en Rose, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, You and Me and Everyone We Know, Tarnation, March of the Penguins, The Shining, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Beautiful Boxer, etc, etc. Sometimes, I like to be reminded that, no matter how bad it gets, I'm not being chased through a meat-packing plant by a one-eyed lunatic with a chainsaw and a grudge.

The Shins. Emily J. Wood, Califone, Mum, American Analog Set, Tartufi, the Talking Heads, Boyskout, the Cars, Iron & Wine, Neko Case, Peaches, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, early Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, the Faint, Death Cab + Postal Service, Team Dresch, Bikini Kill, Sousxie and the Banshees, Gretchen Philips, Simone Grudzen, Dolly Parton, A Tribe Called Quest, lots of alt-country, old-school hip hop, Mirah, Toshi Reagon, the Magnetic Fields, etc etc etc...wiretapmusic.com

Six Feet Under (RIP), Lost, Arrested Development, food tv

Taurus

These days, I'm into brunch, dinner parties, games, and school. I like school.

Good food and hot springs. Hot springs and good food. Portland and Seattle.