Writing, drinking coffee, writing...daydreaming.
Cannonball Adderley, Bonnie Raitt, Shelby Lynne, Nikka Costa, Allan Sherman, Diana Krall, almost anything with a good horn section, Nancy Wilson, saxophones, Alison Kraus, the Fifth Dimension, drum solos, Cheryl Wheeler, old (really old) Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears, Dionne Farris, the Dixie Chicks, Etta James, Imani Coppola, Earth Wind and Fire, Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman, the Carpenters (yes, it's true), Dionne Warwick, India Arie, James Taylor, old Pointer Sisters, k.d., keb, Broadway, Maroon Five, John Mayer, hip hop, hoppity hip, Patty Griffin, Sam Phillips, Vicki Sue Robinson's version of Turn the Beat Around, Stevie Wonder, Pure Prarie League, Norah Jones...
Recently...The Mistress's Daughter:A Memoir by A.M. Homes (not as trashy as the title implies,damn); Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose; the graphic novels Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home; various chunks of The New Yorker. And just checked out from library a collection of E.B. White's essays and a book of his letters.