Traveling, Camping, SU Sports, Red Sox, Reading, Currently into working out, yoga, and running (that could slide at any moment...But so far, so good), Going to plays/theater, movies (especially the Drive-In), Taking pictures (digital camera = great invention!), Sometimes cooking (Soups and Salsas are my specialties), Definitely eating (Seafood and Dark Chocolate...which is why I now have to be into working out...), Good beer and wine, and Straw Bale construction, and my kids.
People I know now, People I once knew from high school, college, or who have passed through VH over the years...Cool people, Ecclectic people, People who know what straw bale construction is...or want to know.
In no particular order: Bush, Alice in Chains, Journey (old Journey), some old 80's rock, some new "alternative" (pretty much the radio kind), the soundtrack to "Les Miserable," a little bit of this and that...Some salsa (Jerry Rivera!)and merengue, Sarah McLachlan, Fleetwood Mac, George Winston, and occasional pop "hit"...
Crash, Sideways, Fresa y Chocolate, Lista de Espera, Shawshank Redemption, City of God, Garden State, The Spanish Apartment, Amélie, Talk to Her, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Say Anything, Better Off Dead, High Fidelity, Babe (the Pig), Robin Hood (the Disney version)...
Sex and the City, Scrubs, The Office, 30 Rock, Any Law and Orders, Some Reality Show, (Survivor, Amazing Race...), Frontline, POV, & Independent Lens on PBS.
"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri, "Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, David Shannon Books (The "No David!" series, "Duck on a Bike," etc.) "When I was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago, "Round Ireland with a Fridge" by Tony Hawks, "A Year in the Merde" by Stephen Clarke, "English as a Second Language" by Megan Crane, Anything by Julia Alvarez, Travel Books, especially Bill Bryson, Laura Inglass Wilder, especially "Little House in the Big Woods" and "On the Banks of Plum Creek;" Currently reading "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
No one in particular. Lots of people have heroic qualities, but no one encompasses it all for me.