travel, cooking, restaurateuring, art, film, reading, fishing, exercise and photography
pretty much anything goes: have been listening to a lot of e. fitzgerald, d. krall, and f. sinatra lately - also love rachmaninoff, vivaldi, e. presley, g. brooks, the list could go on...
tough one for a film buff like me, among my favorites: mr. smith goes to washington, american history x, cinema paradiso, platoon, clue, and anything with cate blanchett, jean arthur, or cary grant
king leopold's ghost (a. hoschild), le petit prince (a. saint-exupery), confederacy of dunces (j.k. o'toole) anything by jeffrey steingarten, brothers karamazov (f. dostoesky), the Holy Bible