Humanist.American Author.
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Loud understatements. Coffee. The moment. Candles. Books shelves. Richly bound books. Book stores. Cafes. Red wine. Dependability. Punctuality. Hearts of gold. Manners. Nerds, geeks, and freaks. Awakenings. Compound effects. Vocations. Intelligence. Loyalty. Orange juice (not from concentrate). Listening. Philosophy (epistemology, aesthetics). Private libraries. Muscle. Mutual Funds. Friendship. Nashville Public Library. NPR. Green living. Art (a dog I know). Blue chip stocks. Competency. Stories. Shared goals. Tolerance. Characters. Poise. Women of distinction. Gay rights. Respect. Good habits. History. Conservative dress. Liberal undress. Common values. Returned phone calls. Love letters. Girls with glasses. Celebrations. Immortality. Italian restaurants. Voting. British accents.
Friends. Readers. Writers. Artists. Professionals.
Classical, Jazz, Some Independent and Popular. Verdi, Mendelssohn,Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Beethoven, Mozart, Orff,Vivaldi, Faure. Prince, Norah Jones, Leigh Nash, Iron and Wine, The Shins, Chilli Peppers, Madonna, Queen,U2, Patsy Cline, Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra, Mari Callas, Robbie Williams. Any music that inspires one to do great things (or lesser things that are highly emotive and daring). I enjoy movie sound tracks, and every so often, just for the contrast, I listen to punk, hard rock, country, and a wee bit of blue grass.
Closer. Amadeus. Gladiator.
Wake up, Sir!; Everything Is Illuminated; The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love; Goodbye Columbus; Breakfast at Tiffany's; American Pastoral; A Summons to Memphis; Ironweed; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; Middlesex; Gender Blenders; You Are Not a Stranger Here; The Virgin Suicides; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Empire Falls; A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain; Snow; One Hundred Years of Solitude; The Stone Diaries; Song of Solomon; Beloved; Gargantua and Pantagruel; Astrophil and Stella; Canturbury Tales; Sacred Monster; The Green Mile; The Executioner's Song; Plainsong; Rabbin Run; Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; Lonesome Dove; Slaughterhouse 5; Tuesdays with Morrie; You Can't Go Home Again; Look Homeward, Angel; The Blind Assassin; The English Patient; Lord of the Flies; The Hours; Cold Mountain; The Great Gatsby; This Side of Paradise; Catch 22; Catcher in the Rye; Flowers for Algernon; Where the Red Fern Grows; A Separate Peace; Severin's Journey into the Dark; Harry Potter and the[etc.]; Angela's Ashes; 'Tis; Lolita; Bridget Jone's Diary; The Da Vinci Code; All the Kings Men; Memoirs of a Geisha; Animal Dreams; The Bean Trees; Pigs in Heaven; The World According to Garp; White Fang; The Call of the Wild; Madam Bovary; Great Expectations; Ivanhoe; The Illiad; The Odyssey; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Pride and Prejudice; Martin Dressler: Tale of an American Dreamer; The Shipping News; Atlas Shrugged; The Fountain Head; About a Boy; Love Invents Us, Even a Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You; The Forest for the Trees; Dracula; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Les Miserables; Le Morte D'Arthur; Macbeth; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Othello, the Moore of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; "The Lady of Shalott"; "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; The Wastelands; Candide; Beowulf; Notes from the Underground; The Known World; Everyman; Man and Superman; The Dead; The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Absalom, Absalom; Go Down, Moses; Light in August; The Old Man and the Sea, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories; In Our Time; The Sun Also Rises; The Fixer; The Master; The Elegant Universe; Humbodlt's Gift; The Corrections; The Ghost Writer; Snow Falling on Cedars; Zuckerman Unbound; The Human Stain; Angle of Repose; Looking Backward; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Wuthering Heights; Wessingham Awaits; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Inferno; Paradise Lost; The Diary of Anne Frank; To Kill a Mocking Bird; The Age of Innocence; The Robber Barrons; The Evolution of Desire; The Origin of Species; The Wealth of Nations; A Modest Proposal; Rape of the Lock; The Fairy Queen; Don Juan; Faust; A Moveable Feast; Interpreter of Maladies; A Confederacy of Dunces; The Life of Pie; The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Ignorance; Identity; The Joke; The Feast of Love; The Book of Laughter and Forgetting; Farewell Waltz; The Giving Tree; The Boy Scout Handbook; The Tortoise and the Hare; Oh, The Places that You'll Go; The Little Engine that Could.MAGAZINES: National Geographic; Scientific American, Natural Bridge; The New Yorker; Playboy; Forbes; The Humanist; Vanity Fair; Kiplinger's; Plowshares; The Paris Review; The Missouri Review; Esquire.