• live in a small 2-storey house i own
• huge personal library
• either live alone or with a long-term partner
• be a full-time writer, with a variety of projects (fiction, nonfiction, children's books, scripts, etc)
• live in an area with lots of culture (theatre, music, libraries, art shows, etc.)
• live on a regular schedule, with "scheduled spontaneity"
• have a guest room where anyone can stay at any time
• grow flowers and maybe some vegetables
• have a couple pets
• sing and act as a hobby
• play trombone and piano again, maybe guitar
• have dinner parties with friends on a regular basis
• go to meeting every week

• Brian Wilson (front row)
• Celtic Thunder
• Don Felder
• First Aid Kit (front row)
• Foreigner
• The Front Bottoms
• Herman's Hermits
• Josh Groban
• Julia Jacklin (stayed in the same motel, I was right behind her band at the desk checking in)
• The Kingston Trio
• Paul Simon (farewell tour)
• Styx
• Weezer

• will never get a piercing or tattoo
• not "straight edge" but don't drink, smoke, do drugs (including pot), drink caffeine, or have one-night stands
• socialist
• don't believe in ghosts
• do believe in soulmates
• Larry Appleton irl (watch Perfect Strangers)
• single but unavailable
• child of abuse
• Mark Linn-Baker was my sexual awakening
• member of the May/December society (last partner was in his early 70s)

• abacus
• abandon
• abscond
• amourette
• anew
• ardent
• aria
• avocation
• bay
• belief
• blaze
• birch
• blanket
• bottle
• brother
• butterfly
• bygone
• calligraphy
• canvas
• caress
• cellar

• What personality trait do you value the most in yourself? I have a thirst for knowledge.
• What is your dream job? Full-time writer.
• Is your dream job attainable? Why or why not? I believe it is but it won't be easy.
• If you could live anywhere, where would it be? Boston, MA
• If money were no object, what would you want to do for the rest of your life? Travel, soak up culture, write.
• What would you do if you won a million dollars? Give it away; no one needs a million dollars.
• What are your skills and strengths? Introspection, writing, planning/organising, public speaking
• If you could eliminate one bad habit that you do, what would it be and why? Procra...

• 2000 Miles
• All I Want for Christmas Is You
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Away in a Manger
• Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella
• Can't Wait for Christmas
• Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
• Christmas Canon
• Christmas in the Trenches
• Christmas Is Really Fantastic
• Christmas Wrapping
• The Coventry Carol
• Deck the Halls
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Don't Shoot Me, Santa
• Fairytale of New York
• Father Christmas
• Feliz Navidad
• The First Noel
• Go Tell It on the Mountain
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

• Larry Appleton (Perfect Strangers)
• Frodo Baggins (LotR)
• Marty McFly (Back to the Future)
• Kermit the Frog (The Muppets)
• Wirt (Over the Garden Wall)
• Charles Ryder (Brideshead Revisited)
• Ishmael (Moby-Dick)
• Jedediah Smith (Night at the Museum)
• Dustfinger (Inkwell trilogy)
• Peter Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia)
• Prince Arin (Teddy Ruxpin)
• Vladimir (Waiting for Godot)
• Ragamuffin (Lenore comics)
• Truman Burbank (The Truman Show)
• Owl (Winnie the Pooh)
• Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables)
• Ennis Del Mar (Brokeback Mountain)
• Horace Somnusson (Miss Peregrine)

• ainglí
• aisling
• amanathar
• aoibhneas
• arán
• bainne
• beatha
• bricíní
• cara
• cliste
• cuisle
• cúthail
• dearglach
• dóchas
• ealach
• fadó
• feis
• geansaí
• gréine
• inis
• lá

• English bulldog
• Dandie Dinmont terrier
• Collie (smooth, then rough)
• Bull terrier
• Briard
• Ibizan hound
• Otterhound
• Schipperke
• Border collie
• PBGV
• Bearded collie
• Basset hound
• Neopolitan mastiff
• Dalmatian
• Golden retriever
• Clumber spaniel
• German shepherd
• Saint Bernard
• Saluki
• Italian greyhound

movies / tv specials

• It's a Wonderful Life
• A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott version)
• Miracle on 34th Street (the original)
• White Christmas
• Home Alone 1 & 2
• The Santa Clause
• The Polar Express
• Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Frosty the Snowman
• Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
• Perfect Strangers Christmas episodes

food & drink

• breakfast: grapefruit with cherries, cinnamon rolls, breakfast casserole, hot chocolate

• Matthew 5:14-16
• Romans 1:16
• James 3:17
• Psalm 8:3-9
• Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
• 1 John 4:7
• Psalm 30:5
• 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
• Zephaniah 3:17

• Acacia Joan
• Adair Yvonne
• Adalia Bell
• Adelaide Clemenza
• Adelaide Ffion
• Adelaide July
• Adelaide Marian Carmel
• Adelaide Sonnet
• Adelaide Sylvie Maple
• Adele Briar Catherine
• Adelheid Fern Émilienne
• Adelphia Bronte Pearl
• Adora Blossom Willoughby
• Adriana Strawberry
• Agatha Chloe
• Agatha Sophie
• Agnes Domino
• Agnes Wren
• Aisling Fenella Capucine
• Alaska Yule Boheme
• Alba Finch