spending time with my family . digital photography . hanging out with veterans . pestering our cats and dogs . collecting: old books; old cameras; military/veteran/pow-mia patches, pins, and buttons; and anything related to the beatles . being out in nature . military history . pin-up art . vintage clothing and shoes . the dallas stars . anything les miserables
make-a-wish foundation . mercy ships . hunger site . breast cancer site . child health site . literacy site . rainforest site . animal rescue site
[real life] people i want to meet: a world war i veteran . capt. scott o'grady . bill o'reilly . margaret thatcher . mikael gorbachev . laura bush . bill nye (the science guy) . ben stein . jay leno . mike rowe
[myspace] people i want to meet: fellow: photographers . pow/mia activists . military supporters . bookworms . adoptees
[groovy] people i've met: george w. bush, rick perry, phil gramm, dick armey, and a bunch of other politicians . ross perot . john mueller . don mclean . the liverpool legends . louise harrison (george harrison's sister) . two medal of honor winners . four ex-pow's (one from wwii, two from the korean war, and one from the vietnam war) . dale sizemore (of blackhawk down fame) . admiral thomas collins (former commandant of the uscg) as well as other top coast guard officials . my birth family
there are numerous profiles in my friends list that were created to honor sick or missing children. please take the time to look at the profiles, and see what you can do to help. thank you so much.
the beatles . the beach boys . simon and garfunkel . neil diamond . buddy holly . ritchie valens . don mclean . herman's hermits . ella fitzgerald (wish I could sing like her!) . louis armstrong . u2 . john lennon . john mueller . the everly brothers . bing crosby . carman . michael w. smith . phillips, craig, and dean . rich mullins . steven curtis chapman . 4him . the liverpool legends . the monkees . the mamas and the papas . paul revere & the raiders . jan and dean . sonny and cher . matchbox twenty . weird al yankovic . classical music (mozart and mussorgksy rock!) . swing . big band
annie . back to the future trilogy . bean . cars . clue . cocoon . dead poet's society . donnie darko . fiddler on the roof . field of dreams . finding nemo . flight of the navigator . forest gump . frequency . ghostbusters . ghost world . good will hunting . the goonies . the green mile . a hard day's night . the incredibles . the indiana jones trilogy . la vita è bella . les miserables . the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe . the lord of the rings trilogy . miss congeniality . monsters, inc . murder by death . open season . pirates of silicon valley . pleasantville . rebel without a cause . return to oz . the sixth sense . the sound of music . all the star wars movies . west side story . what the deaf man heard . the wizard of oz . anything with laurel and hardy or charlie chaplin or audrey hepburn . the band of brothers series
the andy griffith show . america's next top model . american chopper . are you being served . burn notice . charmed . digging for the truth . dirty jobs . how it's made . jay leno . jeopardy . law & order . law & order: svu . little people, big world . mad men . m*a*s*h . miami ink . mind of mencia . mr. bean . project runway . tales from the darkside . what not to wear . whose line is it anyway . without a trace . the history channel . fox news . the discovery channel . any nhl game, especially the dallas stars
anne frank's diary . the bible . the chronicles of narnia (all of the stories) . a clockwork orange . the complete poems of emily dickinson . the devil's arithmetic . the divine comedy . the five people you meet in heaven . freakonomics . the hobbit . in cold blood . les miserables . the lord of the rings triology . a tale of two cities . vanishing acts . just about anything by agatha christie . the hardy boys and the nancy drew mysteries
currently reading: federal benefits for veterans and dependents: 2007 edition [department of veterans affiars]
our men and women who served, or are serving, in the armed forces of the united states of america . our pow/mia's . the families of ouw pow/mia/kia-bnr's . ex-pow's . capt. scott o'grady . teachers . police, firefighters, emt's . the guys involved in blackhawk down; i had the honor of meeting one of them in 2003 . the survivors of the okc bombing . john walsh