reading, writing, travel, disability issues, Deaf culture, sign language, music, movies, food, mermaids
U2, Sinead O'Connor, Angela Aki, Hootie & the Blowfish, Snow Patrol, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Tekameli, The Psychedelic Furs, Lila Downs, The Cure, alternative '80s stuff
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The English Patient, The King and I, Lost in Translation, The Year of Living Dangerously, Almost Famous, Dreamgirls, The Constant Gardener
Desperate Housewives, 24, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Tender is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan, The English Patient, Green Tea to Go, All We Know of Heaven, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Marquis of Mooikloof, Writing Open the Mind, Accidents of Nature, What is the What? by Dave Eggers, Ash by Holly Thompson, anything by Chitra Divakaruni, Pam Houston, Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Marge Piercy, Sherman Alexie, Peter Carey, Assia Djebar, Marguerite Duras, Julio Cortazar, Louise Erdrich, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julia Alvarez, Josephine Humphreys, Alice Hoffman.
Jackie O, Grace Kelly, Helen Keller, Frida Kahlo, intrepid woman Victorian travelers, Sally Ride