• Quirky phrases - "Well, hello, 'it's me' "
• Long chats at the ballpark
• Pipe smoke
• Backrubs
• Watching him make his granddaughter giggle like no one else could
• Clearing his throat when his son did something stupid
• And then joking with me about using the cast-iron skillet on his son
• That big smile and twinkly eyes
• TV volume - never thought I'd miss that
• Walking through my house and checking things - opening cabinets, jiggling faucets
• Celebrating our birthdays together
• The Roger Williams Design
• Visits to the office on the bike

• high school - the one with whom I watched Beaches, ate popcorn and drank chocolate milkshakes after every boyfriend drama
• college - the one i didn't date but probably should have
• college - the one i married and divorced
• college - the crazy one who provided me with great stories
• college and after - the one i learned the most from - sometimes the lowest points of life teach us who loves us and cares about us no matter what
• the last few years - the one who called me every week after every low point
• right now - the one who is 10 years younger but feels like the same age. We have more in common than I expected to find in a girlfriend
• right now - the one who is 10 years older and means more to me than I ever imagined possible and makes me feel like a milli...

• Owner of bed and breakfast
• Organic gardener
• Interior designer
• Chef (okay, except for anything involving pork, beef or weird parts)
• Photographer

• Italy - Florence, Venice, Cinque Terre
• Bar Harbor, Maine
• Santa Fe, NM

• I won't take the newspaper in the top of the stack - it's already been read
• I fold and organize all of my underwear
• I like the temperature in the car to be divisible by 2 or 5
• My feet are incredibly sensitive - and not in the ticklish way
• My yoga mat has to be lined up parallel with the floorboards
• I could eat Nutella by the spoonful right out of the jar

• Sex and violence in film - actually threw up after watching The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but also got to analyze Holy Grail
• English 101 - prof was old guy who wore corduroy pants and classic vests and made me think hard about every essay. Inspired some of my best writing - including the benefits of non-democratic forms of government
• AIDS in Literature - brilliant professor, super cool class, lots of arguments, great books
• Advertising class where we had to do a campaign for the Itty Bitty Book Light
• First PR Class - prof was great and became a good friend. Wrote my first press release and knew it was what I wanted to do for a career
• PR Campaigns - got to do a campaign for a rape crisis group and then actually got ...

• Senior Dinner Dance - chicken cordon bleu incident
• Convention in Jacksonville
• Beach weekends
• Scavenger Hunt in Tampa
• Violent Femmes
• Soccer
• Basketball in the driveway
• Kanipe's class
• Hurricane newspaper

• Have sharp knives in the kitchen
• Have cool garden art
• Not tell my kids what to do
• Say what I really think - even more so than I do now
• Spoil my grandchildren and spend as much time with them as possible
• Have brunch with old lady friends at nice restaurants
• Play canasta
• Drive a big-ass whale of a car 20 miles an hour (just kidding)
• Drive a super cool convertible or an old classic car (not kidding)
• Be in the garden club

Bar Harbor, Maine - climbed the Bubbles in the rain. Up slippery rocks to quite a height - had to hoist ourselves up using rebar drilled into rocks. then had to climb/slide back down still in the rain

• Impatient
• Perfectionist... but only about some things
• Judgemental - do it my way!
• Don't tell me what to do or how to do it - I want to figure it out myself
• I like rules
• Never stop and relax
• Anal retentive - everything should have a place!