Writing; Painting; Interior Design; Wine; Paranormal; American Sign Language; Word Puzzles; Jigsaw Puzzles; Board Games; Suduko; Music
Van Gogh; Hemmingway; Johnny Depp (for obvious reasons); my maternal great-great grandfather, Jesse Leveaux, who imigrated here from Paris in the 1800's; my maternal great-great grandmother, who was a full-blooded Cherokee & grew up on the reservation in North Carolina; my paternal Scottish & Irish great grandparents
Fabulous New Band...Eastern Block (check out their my space!); Counting Crows; Foo Fighters; Fuel; Jewel; Goo Goo Dolls; Everlast; Lenny Kravitz; Dime Store Freud; most Motown music; Lorena McKinnett; Third Eye Blind; Sarah McGlaughlin; Dixie Chicks; Van Morrison; Janis Joplin; Billie Holliday; Kenny Nightingale; classical music; celtic music; R & B - among many many others
My new favorite movie is P.S. I Love You - great soundrack, too. I like some epics (i.e. Titanic; Braveheart; Dances With Wolves; Last Of The Mohicans; Cold Mountain; Count of Monte Cristo; Legends of the Fall), but mostly "chick movies." Ever After; Chocolat; Bridges Of Madison County; Under The Tuscan Sun; Serendiptiy; Shirley Valentine; Secret Of Roane Inish; Moonstruck; City of Angels; The Notebook; Don Juan, Frieda; Somewhere in Time; Ghost & Mrs. Muir; Family Man; Love Actually; Forever Young; Loch Ness; No Looking Back; With Honors; What's Eating Gilbert Grape?; Sideways; A River Runs Through It; Michael; Out of Africa; Bridget Jones Diary; The Way We Were; Shenandoah; the Temptations movie, many more
Project Runway; Design Star; Jeopardy; re-runs of Will And Grace; Ghost Hunters
More Than Meets the Eye (Yvonne Perry); Wayne Dyer books; John Edward books; Rosemary Altea books; The Jesus Mysteries (Tim Freke/Peter Gandy); Nature - Speaks (Ted Andrews); Anatomy of the Spirit (Caroline Myss); Walking in the Garden of Souls (George Anderson/Andrew Barone), among many many others
William Wallace; Joan of Arc; Dalai Lama; Martin Luther King; Geronimo...anyone with a positive message - anyone who is(was) not afraid to take a stand for what they believe(d) in. Also, the common person who stands up and defends the rights of children or the underdog - without reguard to their own safety, reputation or benefit.