Movies: Chocolat, Don Juan deMarco, Cool Hand Luke, The Secret of
Kells, Life is Beautiful, The Life of Brian, Dr. Zhivago, West Side
Story, Babe, Glory, Brother From Another Planet, The Sound of
Music, The Graduate, any Alfred Hitchcock film, The Island on Bird
Street, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Piano
I love live theater and concerts.
I enjoy hiking and being in nature. And I love dressing up and
enjoying a nice meal,bottle of wine and scintillating
conversation.
Books: Too many favorites to number or recall, but here are a few:
Short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Flannery O'Connor; The Grapes
of Wrath and East of Eden; The Book Thief, Zorba the Greek, JRR
Tolkein, Pigs in Heaven, The Body Mind Dilemma, The Rainbow and
Women in Love, The Color Purple; A Prayer for Owen Meany; Cutting
For Stone; The Secret Garden, Poetry by Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry,
Robert Frost
Food: Fresh Mt.Hood strawberries, Indian, Vietnamese, Italian, -the
spicier the better! I love to try different foods. And fresh food.
I have a real weakness for chocolate with nuts.
Music: I love classical, baroque, especially Bach, Vivaldi, Chopin,
Rachmaninoff.
But I am eclectic-- Bruce Springsteen, the Eagles, Elton John,
Chicago, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Pink Martini, Carrie Newcomer,
jazz, bluegrass, folk, shape-note singing, Mo-Town, danceable
music!
Other favorite things:being in nature and watching wild life,
dancing, being in/on water , playing, stimulating conversation;
traveling to new places and learning new languages , new foods, new
friends. Reading by the fire--
