Past Featured Author
Sandra Smith
Massillon, Ohio USA
Hobbies/Interests
I love many things; top of my list is traveling, canoeing, scuba diving and snorkeling, viewing foreign and independent films.
Most Memorable Moment
I'm fortunate to have many: The excitement of seeing us as one world when television circled the globe for year 2000 New Year's celebrations; A night dive in Hawaii where I found myself eye to eye with manta rays, Diving the shipwreck of the Arabia in Tobermory, Ontario; Parasailing in French Polynesia; Meeting the baby goat born on my watch as a volunter at the Heifer Project in California.
My Favorite Beauty Spots
I have many, but here are a few standouts: Big Sur, California, Cane Garden Bay, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, South Island of New Zealand, Canadian Rockies, Moorea, French Polynesia, Izmire, Turkey, Dubrovnic, Croatia.
My Favorite Movies
Big Eden, Delivering Milo and Love Actually...
Likes
My family, civility, gentleness, reading, Spring, planning trips, baby animals, our blue planet, solitude...
Disikes
Hatred masquerading as religion.
Advice to Other Amateur Authors
Ernest Hemingway's advice is the best I know. He said to never stop working until you have decided where you will start tomorrow. I can't improve on that and use it myself.