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DeAnn Rossetti

Generally, from my husband, who works at KVI/KOMO radio. Or at work, from the Eastside Journal, the parent publication of the paper I work for, the Mercer Island Reporter.

Tea, please....Earl Grey, hot, or some Celestial Seasonings tea. Coffee always tangles with my colon, and the colon loses.

Wow, I would use my theater degree, move out to Hollyweird, and become a member of the cast of "Enterprise" or "The Practice" or some show that needs a larger woman character in the cast. Either that, or Broadway in NYC, and the stage. I also would like to start my own larger women's lifestyle magazine one day, when I win the lottery!

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy and Patricia McKillip's latest work, I can't remember the title because I just got it in the mail. I just finished Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, which was pretty good.

The House on the Rock in Wisconsin; the Morgue of Boston's City Hospital; and the flight line of MacDill Air Force Base on the day of the "turkey shoot" to determine the "top gun" pilot.

A person attending a writers' conference told me about San Fran Writergrrls, and I then heard about the Seattle version from them.

Ooohhh, can I have a table full? I would love to have met John Steinbeck, my favorite classics author, and Frank Sinatra (I was born on his 45th birthday), and Albert Einstein, and duchess Sarah Ferguson, and Camryn Manheim, and Ann and Nancy Wilson (Heart was my favorite group as a teenager), and William Shakespeare and Patricia McKillip, and J. Michael Straczynski, and Emma Thompson, and Whoopi Goldberg... wouldn't that be a table for an interesting dinner conversation?

Heart's Dreamboat Anne, followed closely by Heart's Little Queen, and Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life.

A photo of a Blackbird jet fighter at the Museum of Flight (my husband and I were married there).

Burgundy. I had my wedding dress made of burgundy panne velvet with creme lace trim.

DeAnn Rossetti has a BA in Drama/Speech and History from Clarke College and an MA in Writing from Lesley College. She has worked as everything from a proofreader in a type house to senior editor of a Florida lifestyle magazine. She currently works as a freelance writer and at the Mercer Island Reporter as the lifestyle and business reporter when she's not at home in Maple Valley with her husband Jim and her two-year-old son Nick.