• April and Sigi - any Mom will tell you - your kids smell the best. Nothing else comes close.
• My Mom smelled the best. And when I was little her gloves smelled the BEST!!!!
• My mother's jewelry box.
• All my animals - sweet little angels.
• Cardamom bread.
• Lee's neck.
• After the rain, in Santa Monica

• Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
• Affliction - Russell Banks
• The Sportswriter- Richard Ford
• The Sudden Country - Karen Fisher
• The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
• In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
• The Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
• The Tortilla Curtain - T.C. Boyle
• Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
• A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton
• Plainsong - Kent Haruft
• Music For Chameleons - Truman Capote
• A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
• Poetry by Bukowski, Sexton and Cummings

• Santa Fe, NM
• Big Sur, CA
• Savannah, GA
• Minnesota/Wisconsin (real America)
• The beach - any beach - in the winter
• Palm Springs/Joshua Tree in the winter
• San Francisco - anytime

• True Romance
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Dumbo
• Bleu (Juliette Binoche)
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Fanny & Alexander
• Amelie
• Jeremiah Johnson
• Big, Bad Love
• Raise the Red Lantern
• The Triplets of Belleville
• 21 Grams
• Gone With The Wind
• The Scent of Green Papaya
• Dead Calm
• Magnolia
• Fargo
• Impromptu
• Good Fellas
• Salvador
• The Spanish Prisoner

• Bella - part Lab, part Chow - She's a Labow. And she's perfect.
• Gus - He's a German. Terribly handsome and smart & loyal.
• King of "pets". TINO. Gorgeous Quarter horse who likes to hang out and lowers my blood pressure.

• Neil - it's all about Neil
• Tragically Hip - they're so freakin' hip
• Cowboy Junkies - (Hi Margo!!!)

The Rest: BOB - how is it that BOB is not Canadian?????? The Felice Brothers John Coltrane Tom Waits Patti Smith Miles Davis

• Best Show is Radio Bob. Genius.
• 2nd Best Show is Prarie Home Companion.
• 3rd best show is Howard Stern.
• 4th best show is NPR's Terry Gross who hosts "Fresh Air".
• Best rock station is in Santa Fe, NM.
• 2nd best rock station is in Flagstaff, AZ