• dad teaching me how to fish
• feeding the ducks with my sister every spring
• watching I Love Lucy with mom every Tuesday night
• taking off my training wheels for the first time
• losing my tooth on the swings when I was 8
• 4th of July block parties
• winning a goldfish at the fair
• slumber parties
• playing simon says on the front lawn
• learning to square dance in 5th grade

Thank you grandma. I will never forget you.

• she made excellent peanut butter cookies
• she raised 7 children
• she loved to make quilts
• she had never worn a pair of pants
• she worked as a teacher for 30 years
• she thought the weather on TV was the weather outside
• she was born in the 1800s
• she always had a handkerchief in her pocket

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
• Magician by Raymond E. Feist
• Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt

Most of the bands I listened to in high school are still my favorite bands.

• The Jesus & Mary Chain
• The Smiths
• Depeche Mode
• Echo & The Bunnymen
• Psychedelic Furs
• The Cure
• Joy Division
• Love & Rockets
• Velvet Underground
• Brian Eno