Trina

Amity Regional Senior High School, Attended 1991 - 1995, Class of 1995

clark, race brook, amity, llama school

Simmons College, Attended 2005 - Present, Master's Degree, social work
Clark University, Attended 1995 - 1999, Class of 1999, Bachelor's Degree, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

kids' yoga teacher, indy book and cd slinger

The Youth and Beauty Brigade, adbusters

making brunch, stealing crossword puzzles, adbusters, honey, creating kids' art projects so complex that they bring the youth of Dorchester to tears, concocting bread pudding, yoga, ice skating on the frog pond (esp. with the youth of america), karaoke, ok dol bibimbop, james' gate nachos, reading innumerable academic articles on the effects of lead poisoning on inner city youth aggression (a.k.a. grad school), nursing innumerable paper cuts from said articles, counting headlights on the highway

tracy kidder's mountains beyond mountains... michael chabon, dave eggers, jonathan franzen, bryce courtenay, tom robbins, douglas coupland, gabriel garcia marquez, irvine welsh, nick hornby, sabrina ward harrison, anne lamott, lewis carroll, america:the book. Oh, and I'm addicted to adbusters.

true romance, royal tenenbaums, a life aquatic, big lebowski, donnie darko, rushmore, bottle rocket, the outsiders, trainspotting, billy madison, tarnation, swingers, run lola run, the neverending story, the motorcycle diaries, pump up the volume, mad hot ballroom, edward scissorhands, FB's DO, what's eating gilbert grape?, back to the future

wilco, cat power, built to spill, decemberists, bjork, mos def, iron & wine, mirah, ida, dj shadow, tribe called quest, seu jorge versions of bowie songs, neutral milk hotel, shins, amos lee, masters (djs jayceeoh and on&on), vintage beastie boys, yo la tengo, modest mouse, lamb, nina, ella, louis, white stripes, air, elliott smith, tortoise, the books, clap your hands say yeah!, nick drake, the buried beds, sufjan stevens, jake the snake, greater good, jeff mangum, cash, journey, laura veirs, microphones, the album leaf, U.N.K.L.E., death cab, manu chao, stevie, low, broken social scene, m. ward, beck, mountain goats, brad mehldau, explosions in the sky, astrud gilberto, NPR, dj krush, thievery corporation, aaron copland, architecture in helsinki

flight of the conchords, the daily show, arrested development, the cosby show, sifl+ollie

Cancer

i like crosswords. i like going out. i like staying in (though i give myself guilt trips about it.) i like music. i like jamaica pond in the winter. i like jamaica pond in the summer. i like making soup. i like baking bread. i like singing. i like having fires in the fireplace and film in the polaroid. i like good movies, which never include the descriptor: "romantic comedy," and about which i can be a total snob.

i like cooking ethnic foods with kids in dorchester, and i like it when they get their homework done and actually learn things at the same time.

i like good, strong coffee and great books. i like adbusters, and the disinformation society series. i like knitting especially in cold weather, and especially in front of the fire. i like yoga, but prefer it in a hot room.

i like old things, like antique cameras, old old books, vintage clothes, pieces of "trash" that are beautiful: i have two pieces of rusted, paint-chipped tin, a half a rusted muffler, and two water-stained wood blocks hanging on my walls.

i sometimes find pieces of fruit so beautiful that it pains me to cut or eat them. occasionally vegetables, too, but mostly fruit.

i once recieved a phone call asking me how to spell "conscious."

i really like music.

i teach kids' yoga and freelance write and like to make things for people i love.

beekeepers (we have a small infestation problem on the porch)