"There is only one good, knowledge, and only one evil, ignorance...Socrates. I enjoy: Reading, playing on the computer, TRAVELING, horses, dogs, cats, birds, swimming, BOARD GAMES, video games, watching television, MOVIES, literature, PSYCHOLOGY, poetry, crafts, holiday decorating, watching tennis, and MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC.
The Famous: Nelson Mandela (I admire his conviction, strength, and perseverance);
Oprah Winfrey,
Martha Stewart,
Paul McCartney,
Elton John,
Nelson DeMille,
Tom Hanks,
Steven Spielberg,
Charlize Theron,
Paul Simon,
Peter, Paul & Mary,
Steven King,
and
Peter Paige.
The Infamous: All the rest of you...and you know who you are!
THANK YOU DAISYGIRL FOR THE CUTE GRAPHIC!!!The Beatles, Queen (I miss Freddie), Peter Paul & Mary (Their version of Don't Think Twice, It's Alright is the BEST, one of my favorite songs), Simon & Garfunkel, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller (Moonlight Serenade gives me the chills), Lenny Welch (Since I Fell for You is one of my all time favorite songs), Santo & Johnny, Led Zeppelin, Hall & Oates, James Taylor, Jim Croce (Operator will always be one of the best songs of all time), Eminem, Run DMC, Black Eyed Peas, Coldplay, The Killers, Carole King, Bon Jovi, Haircut 100, Men at Work, Van Morrison, Sufjan Stevens, Steel Train, The Platters, The Beach Boys, The Mamas & The Papas, The Kinks, The Doors, The Who, The Eagles, Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw, Trisha Yearwood, Eric Clapton, Anne Murray, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Marley, ELO, The English Beat, The Smiths, The Cure, Crowded House, Flogging Molly, Green Day, Randy Newman, CCR, Elton John, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Tracey Chapman, Buddy Holly, The Stones, Billy Joel, ZZ Top, REM, Don McLean, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Prince, Lonestar, Death Cab for Cutie, Marvin Gaye, Modest Mouse, Dido, Madonna, Bob Dylan, Bread, The Police, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Nirvana, Metallica, Neil Sedaka, Outkast, Neil Diamond, Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver, Sound of Music, Westside Story, Lionel Richie, Linda Rondstat, Journey, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Mathis, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Joe Jackson, Dion...and the list goes on and on! :)
Ordinary People, Shawshank Redemption, It's a Wonderful Life, Field of Dreams, American Beauty, The Gathering, Schindler's List, ET, Parenthood, Chicago, Walk the Line, Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Arc, Young Sherlock Holmes, Last of Sheila, Contact, Monster, Stand & Deliver, Stand by Me, Mommie Dearest, Parent Trap (original), March of the Penguins, Harry Potter Movies, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, Born on the 4th of July, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, and the list grows...
Cosby Show, Family Ties, 8 is Enough, Brady Bunch, I'll Fly Away, Survivor, Amazing Race, Big Brother, Queer as Folk, The L Word, Huff, 6 Feet Under, Biggest Loser, Medium, Apprentice, Rockstar INXS & Supernova, 24, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, American Idol, Everybody Loves Raymond, Lost, Ellen Degeneres, Oprah, 2 1/2 Men, American Dreams, Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Rockford Files, Who's the Boss, Quantum Leap, I Love Lucy, The OC, Anderson Cooper, The Mole, & Punked.
The Divine Comedy - Dante, Pudd'nhead Wilson - Twain, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Death in Venice - Mann, The Color Purple - Walker, O'Pioneers - Cather, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, The Complete Works of John Donne, The entire Harry Potter series, Anything by Nelson DeMille, Lonesome Dove - McMurtry, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy, Montana 1948 - Watson, The House of Mirth - Wharton, The Secret Garden - Burnett, The Trixie Belden series, Nancy Drew series, Light in August - Faulkner, Adam Bede - Eliot, Any Holocaust Literature, Poetry (no, it's not dead). Autobiographies of regular people (She's Not There, Sickened, Running with Scissors, etc.) I have a million more books I love...I can't name them all!
My grandmother, my mother, my father, Nelson Mandela, Anne Frank, Steven Spielberg, Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Anna Freud, Carl Rogers, FDR & Eleanor, Joanne Callan, Rose Bornhop, Kathleen VanMoorleghem, Ron Kovic, Oprah and most especially those who fight for what they believe in...especially gay rights, animal rights, freeing political prisoners of conscience, social justice, women's rights, and the right to live freely as a culture even if that culture is NOT westernized or Americanized.