My name is Joanne. I'm a historian, classically trained musician, European in the US, an old soul, Catholic. I tend to romanticise my life and try to find beauty in everything. I love reading dreamy books and poems, but I'm no stranger to melancholy either. 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 (films, style, music), hiking, slow living. Some of the things I dislike: tardiness, heat, plastic, income tax.