My name is Joanne. I'm a historian, European in the US, an old soul, Catholic. I tend to romanticise my life and try to find beauty in everything. Some of the things I like: cloudy days, Art Deco, coffee, dahlias, Old Hollywood, antique stores, hazelnuts, mountains, Tolkien, horseriding, handwritten letters, poetry, Chesterton, gardening, love songs, classic western, hiking, slow living, functional medicine. Some of the things I dislike: tardiness, heat, plastic, income tax