my children, my amazingly fun & gorgeous wife, politics and government, cities and urban governance, football, basketball, pinball, chess, sitting on the porch with a beer, my wife, and my children's friends, walks, coffee, chuck taylor's, getting back to my roots at our cabin, making my family happy, my wife's cooking
Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton Jane Goodall
Bob Dylan, John Prine, old time country and western; folk songs, songs my father sang when I was growing up and watching my wife listen to her favorite music, Slick, the Grateful Dead
Stuff with Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda, Casablanca, It’s a Wonderful Life
Football, Basketball, Lost, Everybody Loves Raymond, the news, Becker, Wheel of Torture (this is what we call it) Who Wants to be a Millionaire when it was hosted by Regis Philbin
Books by Malcom Gladwell, James Carville, The Wealth of Cities, The Work of Nations, Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel, Crystal Cave series by Mary Stuart, Robert Caro series, Jane Goodall's In the Shadow of Man & Reason for Hope, Guns Germs & Steel
Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, My father Chester Funkhouser