Meet Your Neighbor: Nancy Parsons

Name:  Nancy Parsons

Family: Married to artist Don Doyle. Mother of Liz and Jamie both of whom grew up in town and graduated from back in the ‘eighties. 

Why North Reading?: I moved here when kids still tied up their ponies in front of Ryer’s, when Ridgeway Estates was the old Van Latham place, and the when Puddin’ Point Schoolhouse stood behind Leo Meltzer’s Furniture Store. I liked the character of the town. Still do.

Occupation: Writer. Newest book: The Dog That Managed Hedge Funds, available on Amazon and www.cheshirepress.com/dog.

School: The University of Toledo.  English major with a bachelor’s degree in education.

Hobbies: Chinese martial arts. I study internal forms such as tai chi, bagua, hsing yi and associated weapons forms. Two classes a week plus Saturday practice.

Favorite Music: West coast jazz, medieval baroque, James Taylor

Other Interests: Gardening, reading design books, considering paint swatches, being walked by our Jack Russell terrier at the Ipswich River Park

Favorite Movie:  Four Weddings and a Funeral

Favorite book: Currently, The Dog That Managed Hedge Funds

Favorite Restaurant:  The Horseshoe Grille

Fun Facts: There’s a free-standing column (sans capital) in our living room, and leaning against a wall in the family room is the damaged propeller from an airship that crashed in Lakehurst, NJ in 1944.