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About meOnce upon a time, Persia studied drama at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City and all kinds of good stuff at Swarthmore College. She spent a year at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism to emerge with a master's degree.
She has worked for The Associated Press in Arkansas; Washington, DC; and New York. She has also written for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., (RFE) in Munich, worked as a freelance book editor, and done cultural reporting and voice work for European publications.
She's happily single, fluent in German, breathtakingly disorganized, and sporadically inspired to cook. She enjoys Indian and Thai food for dining, romantic thrillers and detective stories for reading, movies about superheroes, and television programs about desperate housewives and true crime. Her perfect Sunday morning includes a lengthy and lazy browse through The New York Times online.
She loves afternoons at the Met and dreams of weekends in the Hamptons, but is in fact a real homebody. There's almost always some suitcase standing around half-packed in her home, but it's from her last trip and not in anticipation of any new one. As a writer, she's a monumentally undisciplined procrastinator who growls at her friends when they distract her, but then busily distracts herself. For more damaging information, you'll have to read her blog, Criminal Musings.
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Member sinceJan 25, 2007
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My secret and sacred bird now flies
To meet the Spirit’s vacancy.
All chaos of life today dissolved;
In me a surge of ecstasy.
Gold flames within my longing heart
Invoke the cosmos’ Parent-Sun.
A tapestry of Truth unseen
Bursts forth within; the Play is begun.
- Excerpt from My First Friendship With The Muse by Sri Chinmoy.
posted by theoldman at 12:06 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2009