I really love to run, ride motorcycles, read, read about USA and world history, laugh, bowl, play with my dog Elvis, learn something new, travel, spend time with family, knitting and cooking, make the world a better place and eat!
My sisters and me in Seattle!
At the Pioneer Museum in Oregon!
At the Pike Market in Seattle!
New York City Marathon!
I love Elvis, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Elvis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley, Stan Getz, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Bob Marley, Ray Charles, Los Straitjackets, Big Sandy and the Fly Rite Boys, Bruce, Bon Jovi :), Count Basie, Miriam Makeba, Jerry Lee Lewis, Rolling Stones, The Who, Los Straitjackets, Ryan Adams, Roy Eldridge, Billy Holiday, Dana Pontani... tbc
Elvis and me! (photo by Amy Touchette)
All John Irving, history - Civil War History to be specific, Michael Shaara, Barbara Kingsolver, The Snow Leopard, Desert Solitaire, Devil in the White City, Seabiscuit, A Fine Balance, West with the Night, Annie Dillard, Tom Robbins, Team of Rivals, National Geographic magazine (I know it's not a book), maps - I love to read maps, Light in August (one of my all time favorites), Mists of Avalon, Confederacy of Dunces!
My mom and dad, my sisters, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Grandmom Jo