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... and because Feathered Frog freed up a locked post from years ago that had his portion of the five-question challenge, which we haven't played here much, and which I enjoy. He gave me questions. Reply to this post and I shall give you five questions also. Just try not to wait five years before posting your answers. (tee hee)
1. What is your favorite single dish to prepare?
My maternal grandmother's gumbo recipe.
2. What is your favorite single dish to eat?
Steak, cooked medium-rare. I think. It is very difficult to choose between that and a banana split.
3. Where do you find your considerable inspiration?
From the people I interact with, both real (flesh and blood ones) and imagined (book subjects).
4. What were the circumstances surrounding your initially picking up the needle and thread (or yarn)?
I was about three years old when my maternal grandmother put a needle in my hand and began to teach me the womanly art of home-making. As far as she was concerned, every woman, no matter her station in life, needed to know how to sew, to embroider, to cook, to clean, to order a household and servants, to act as a hostess... sewing lessons started at the same time as cooking lessons and I didn't escape pain along with my pride in making her satisfied with me. To this day I have a 'gentlewoman's mark" on my right thumb from the many needle pricks I got as I learned how to sew.
5. What is your most "special/cherished" non-SCA memory?
Oh, that's tough! Excluding family memories (because to pick one out would mean not choosing another equally cherished), I think it was the day that my baby brother and I went to a presidential rally for Robert Kennedy and the candidate shook my hand (I was in fifth grade), then when I held up my first-grade aged-brother, he shook his hand too, instead of just concentrating on the adults. It was his last stop before his flight to LA and his death, so the combination of being so young and inspired by him blends in my memory with the horror and despair of his death.
But I nearly skipped that one to choose 'the day Marcel Marceau taught me (and some classmates) how to mime'.
1. What is your favorite single dish to prepare?
My maternal grandmother's gumbo recipe.
2. What is your favorite single dish to eat?
Steak, cooked medium-rare. I think. It is very difficult to choose between that and a banana split.
3. Where do you find your considerable inspiration?
From the people I interact with, both real (flesh and blood ones) and imagined (book subjects).
4. What were the circumstances surrounding your initially picking up the needle and thread (or yarn)?
I was about three years old when my maternal grandmother put a needle in my hand and began to teach me the womanly art of home-making. As far as she was concerned, every woman, no matter her station in life, needed to know how to sew, to embroider, to cook, to clean, to order a household and servants, to act as a hostess... sewing lessons started at the same time as cooking lessons and I didn't escape pain along with my pride in making her satisfied with me. To this day I have a 'gentlewoman's mark" on my right thumb from the many needle pricks I got as I learned how to sew.
5. What is your most "special/cherished" non-SCA memory?
Oh, that's tough! Excluding family memories (because to pick one out would mean not choosing another equally cherished), I think it was the day that my baby brother and I went to a presidential rally for Robert Kennedy and the candidate shook my hand (I was in fifth grade), then when I held up my first-grade aged-brother, he shook his hand too, instead of just concentrating on the adults. It was his last stop before his flight to LA and his death, so the combination of being so young and inspired by him blends in my memory with the horror and despair of his death.
But I nearly skipped that one to choose 'the day Marcel Marceau taught me (and some classmates) how to mime'.
