Studio Blog

Where do you currently reside? How’s the weather?

I live in the Northeast, in a medium-sized city. It’s a typical New England April here – yesterday was a gorgeous, sunny, 65 degree day. Today, not so much. Forty degrees and rainy at the moment. It’s New England, though – we could see the sun through the clouds and the temperature climbing before sundown.

  How long have you been a Community Moderator? What’s your favorite part?

      I’ve been a CM for about three months. Given the choice, I asked to take on the Feedback and Suggestions forum because I like being helping people find the answers to their questions. Having Charley to chase down answers to questions for the Myth Busters forum makes it considerably easier to make sure that people are getting the right answers.

      How would you spend your ‘ideal day’? What would you do?

I'd probably need at least 48 hours to fit in everything I’d want to do in my ideal day – and then it wouldn’t be ideal because it would be too hectic. As simple as it sounds, I think my ideal day would be spent with my parents, my kids, my brothers and their kids putting in a full day on a landscaping project and relaxing after the work is done with a cookout and a swim. Whenever we get together, there’s great conversation, good food and a lot of fun. If I could top all of that off with a quiet couple of hours sitting on the front porch under the stars and writing, it would be a perfect day.

What is the last book you read? Did you like it?

        I just downloaded Amazon’s Kindle for PC software, and I’ve been having a blast finding things to read. Lately, I’ve been caught up with Susan Wooldridge’s “PoemCrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words.” It reminds me a lot of one of my first favorite books of all times, Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” in that it’s all about living your life IN the moment so that you can free yourself to write what you see and feel.

What did you want to be when you were 12 years old?

   I grew up to be exactly what I wanted to be when I was 12 – a poet.

What’s one thing most people in the DMS community probably don’t know about you?

       If I won a multi-million dollar jackpot lottery, I’d buy the eight or so houses on my city block and turn it into an urban writers retreat and local crash pad for artists visiting from outside the area.

 So there you have it!

If you see Chamie in the forums be sure to give her some kudos of your own.