novels and biographies, NPR, southern cooking, liberal politics, the gradations of sentence interruption in writing: parentheses and hyphens and ellipses, etymology, friendships, the Red Sox, tennis
Admissions officers at certain business schools; heads of loaded foundations; people who'd hire me to work on a 2008 presidential campaign or managing their company's corporate social responsibility program.
the Magnetic Fields, Spider Saloff, Johnny Cash, June Carter-Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Nina Simone, John Denver, Indigo Girls, Annie Lennox, Edith Piaf.
Babe, Contact, The Lion in Winter, Charade, Fight Club, Traffic, What's Love Got to Do with It?, Gattaca, Inherit the Wind, American Beauty ... I am woefully behind on movies. Dang.
Dexter, Nip/Tuck, Big Love, Weeds.
lots and lots of them.
Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Tina Turner, Martina Navratilova, my parents, my brother.