#ThisorThatThursday with Kay Sparling
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I’d like to welcome Kay Sparling to the blog today!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Finding the time to write.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Coming up with a good story.
Things you need for your writing sessions: I need solitude and quiet.
Things that hamper your writing: Distractions and noise.
A few of your favorite things: Cats, waterfalls, music, and Italian food.
Things you need to throw out: Old kitchen gadgets and cosmetic/skincare that didn’t work as advertised.
Words that describe you: Witty, compassionate, and caretaker.
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Diva, bossy, impatient.
Favorite foods: Pizza, peanut butter cookies, and moussaka.
Things that make you want to gag: Any kind of liver, fennel, and caraway.
Something you’re really good at: Singing, coaching singers, and interior decorating.
Something you’re really bad at: Math, drawing/painting, and dancing.
Favorite smell: Sandalwood.
Something that makes you hold your nose: Mildew and cigarette smoke.
Last best thing you ate: Chicken Masala.
Last thing you regret eating: Goat.
The last thing you ordered online: Bisque for my cat.
The last thing you regret buying: A $50 facial moisturizer.
Things you’d walk a mile for: To help a friend in need.
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: A bat in the house.
Things to say to an author: Your book touched me and made me think differently.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Did you use AI to make up your story?
Favorite places you’ve been: Italy, Greece, and Fiji.
Places you never want to go to again: Russia, Romania, and Cambodia.
Favorite books (or genre): My Antonia by Willa Cather
Books you wouldn’t buy: Sci-fi books
People you’d like to invite to dinner: Aberaham Lincoln, Giuseppe Verdi, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
People you’d cancel dinner on: Vladimir Putin, Adolf Hitler, and Phillis Schlafly.
Favorite things to do: Hike in the mountains, listen to great music, and throwing dinner parties for my friends.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Calculus, installing new electronics, cleaning my oven.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: I’d tell ya, but then I’d have to kill ya.
Something you chickened out from doing: Water sailing.
About Kay:
Kay Sparling is an international opera and sacred singer. Now retired, she lives in the Upper Midwest with her feline writing buddy, the invincible Paducah. When not teaching voice lessons or writing, Kay enjoys gardening, hiking, adventure travelling, and cooking for family and friends.
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