Wonder Woman.

Pepsi. Not very often, though.

Sure can. Not with my fingers, though.

In what sense? In general, no. I don't have much interest in babies. I don't want any and don't enjoy spending time with them. That said, I'm happy for folks who're having a baby, if that's what they want.

I'm going to take a guess and say my sense of humor. What a silly question.

(this is a Formspring question)
(a horribly worded Formspring question.)

Compromise. I just don't understand why folks aren't logical, like me.

I don't know. You tell me.

Kettle.

(This is a Formspring question)

My husband! The year we met, my Husband moved to my town and into our apartment just a few days before my birthday. He arrived with nothing more than a truck, a tv, a suitcase, and a thangkha, a traditional religious piece of art. He's a thangkha artist and he had created the artwork of Arya Tara, Bodhisattva of Swift Assistance, and gave it to me for my birthday that year. It's beautiful, unique and meaningful and of course we still have it in our collection.

I don't watch nearly as much tv as I did a few months ago. I have the bad habit of using the tv as background noise while on the computer. It's a waste of energy and prevents me from giving my work (or whatever it is I'm doing) my full attention. I never just sit and watch tv without doing something else like typing or writing. I just don't find it relaxing. The rampant marketing and glamorized consumerism is distasteful and makes me sad for the world.

I like to open up all the curtains and crack the windows so I can hear the rain outside. Rainy days are generally good for napping or reading, or doing some blogging. Something about rain makes me want to reminisce.

Kill 'em with kindness.

Yes. I do believe in karma. Positive produces positive. Negative produces negative. Not necessarily in one lifetime. And not necessarily in a conventionally logical way. There's some magic to it.

I don't want to answer this question solely because "your" is spelled incorrectly.

Whatever Lil Wayne song is most often played on the radio is the one that best describes my life at that given moment.

Formsping ??: Meanest thing you've ever done? As a teenager I deliberately hurt and ditched more than one friend. I've always felt terrible about that.

Formspring ??: Why do you not reveal your face online?

Because the Chinese Government has my picture. They raided our house in Tibet because of my family's involvement with His Holiness the Dalai Lama's family, arrested my mother-in-law and sister-in-law and confiscated all our pictures among other things. Thankfully they were released within days.

I'm afraid if I put my picture online, they'll potentially be able to find me, learn my real name, and prevent me from ever getting into Tibet again. Or worse.

A Poem about Mary Ellen

She told me, when we first met,
that she couldn't wear elastic...
a fact evident by her swinging breasts under her holey t-shirt.
She's too open about her
medical problems but I wonder how many are true.
She makes me uncomfortable when she
screams her hellos across the wide divide
between our houses.
She gets my name wrong,
but is a neighbor who truly cares.

I hope that I'm a spry octogenarian. I hope folks will guess I'm still in my 60's, not because I don't have wrinkles, but because I'm so spry and in love with life. I want to be loving life as a Tibetan Buddhist nun, retired from a successful life of grant writing for worthy causes, cooking meals and snacks for individuals in retreat at a mountain Dharma center.

Once a year I travel back to India and Nepal for classes at nunneries and to bring medical aid. In my mid-50's I went back to school and became a nurse. In my 40's I took care of my beloved Husband as he was dying. It was a pivotal experience in my life and I'll feel loved and guided by my husband for the rest of my life.

I am a tall, robust woman with a shaved head and a collection of faded tattoos from my early life. I am a non-nonsense retreat administrator, speak Tibetan and my English somehow has the lilt of being a second language despite it being my first. Some more sensitive folks might think me a bit abrupt but those who know me know I do what I do for the greater good and for the Dharma.

Am I who you think I'll be?