Lauren Hirshfield

Nightingale, Dartmouth College, and a summer stint at the Iowa Writer's Workshop

advertising - brand strategy

Teak Fellowship, Gilda's Club, The Writers' Circle

Fiction (reading and writing it), poetry, the SECRET, psychology, random street finds, experimental cooking (bring on the craisins), yoga camp, pilates, improv, hiking, people-watching, trashy gossip magazines, theater, film, tennis, chocolate souffle, real maple syrup, sushi, travel, Sonoma, Chilmark, islands where the water is so clear you can see the bottom, The New Yorker, ipods, singing off-tune...

Kite Runner, The Year of Magical Thinking, Crossing to Safety, Sophie's Choice, The Brothers K, Atonement, Middlesex, The Great Gatsby, Hotel New Hampshire, Cider House Rules, Catcher In The Rye, The Tipping Point, Dear Exile, A Hundred Years of Solitude, The Interpreter of Maladies, Naked, Birds of America, Lolita, A HeartBreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Life is Beautiful, Annie Hall, Almost Famous, Nowhere in Africa, In America, Harry Met Sally, Hands on A Hard Body, Wedding Crashers, Gone With The Wind, You Can Count On Me, Stealing Home, Love Actually

Ben Taylor, James Taylor, U2, Tom Petty, Amy Winehouse, Martin Sexton, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Kanye West, Dido, Stevie Nicks, Moby, David Grey, Jack Johnson, Manu Chau, Beth Orton, Vanessa Morrison, Shannon Worrell, Ben Harper, The Beatles

Seinfeld, Sex in The City, The Apprentice, Family Ties, Different Strokes, Jeopardy

Pisces

quirky, creative, loquacious, sparkling, enthusiastic, intuitive,
slightly indecisive, imgaginative, klutzy, random...
definitely an insatiable dreamer.

People I already know.

People I wish I did.

I love to watch the world get smaller and smaller and smaller..... I'm just "here to help" shrink it.