• Eliana: "If I were King of the Forest, Not queen, not duke, not prince.

My regal robes of the forest, would be satin, not cotton, not chintz..."

• Michael: You watched a 3-hour long silent epic about the Reconstruction on Youtube and you're telling me it's too tedious to go on Hulu to watch 30 Rock?
• Eliana: ACT! *clap* ACT! *clap* I got a 36 on my ACT!
• Rumack: What was it we had for dinner tonight?

Elaine Dickinson: Well, we had a choice of steak or fish. Rumack: Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna. (Airplane)

• Eliana: I was like, "Greek god of what?? INTERNET?"
• Michael: For all you know, he could have taken you to a Vietnamese chop shop!

• shackathon
• picnic
• state park
• walk on abandoned railroad
• riverwalk
• plant flowers
• explore abandoned buildings across river
• beach
• bonfire/campfire
• bunny watch
• explore
• sidewalk chalk
• nap on the hill behind memorial hall
• cloud gaze
• star gaze
• jump in puddles
• camping

• The Trinity
• Rosary
• The Angelus
• Hymns
• The Closing of the Book
• Veronica
• Lord's Prayer
• Nicene Creed
• The Stations of the Cross
• Psalm 23

• rabbit
• wombat
• guinea pig
• chickadee
• otter
• pika
• peacock
• deer
• Arctic fox
• Arctic hare
• wolf
• swan

• Cinderella
• West Side Story
• Phantom of the Opera
• Porgy and Bess
• The Barber of Seville
• The Miser
• The Glass Menagerie
• The Boy Friend
• Inspecting Carol
• Little Women
• The Cherry Orchard
• Carousel
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
• The Pajama Game
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Philadelphia Story
• Rent
• Wicked
• Jersey Boys
• Altar Boyz
• The Light in the Piazza

• heels with hot pink ostrich feathers
• sea-foam green patent leather wedges
• glittery chunky high-heeled tap shoes
• huge sparkling chandelier earrings
• battered pearls
• dark plum/forest green opera gloves
• blue dress made of glass
• dove-grey/lavender silk stockings
• knee high socks meant for school uniforms
• vintage cheerleader skirts
• dusty pink slip dress
• see-through silvery dress
• backless jersey dress with a train in black and white
• little red riding hood
• multi-layered, multi-colored tutu
• long-sleeved white unitard
• massive cocktail rings
• long silk patterned scarves for tying around my head

• Main Street, U.S.A.
• Duke of Gloucester Street
• Strawberry Lane
• Lake Shore Drive
• Michigan Avenue
• Elder Lane

• Lolita
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Rosemary's Baby
• Splendor in the Grass
• West Side Story
• Love With the Proper Stranger
• The Virgin Spring
• The Apartment
• Winter Light
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
• Mary Poppins
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Vinyl
• Mouchette
• Night of the Living Dead

• Art Institute of Chicago
• Detroit Art Institute
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
• Field Museum, Chicago
• National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.
• National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.
• Hirshhorn Museum of Sculpture and Garden, Washington D.C.
• International Spy Museum, Washington D.C.
• Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.
• Shedd Aquarium, Chicago
• Adler Planetarium, Chicago
• Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences

• High heels
• Canvas ballet shoes un-sticking from the floor
• Tap shoes
• A running stream
• Noises from the street below my window at night
• Chopping vegetables or fruit
• Typing
• Long fake fingernails tapping
• Ocean waves
• Doors closing in old movies
• Crême brulée cracking
• Closing a book
• A book's spine cracking
• Boiling water

• Caravaggio
• Titian
• Frida Kahlo
• Artemisia Gentileschi
• Tamara de Lempicka
• Edward Hopper
• Rene Magritte
• Grandma Moses
• Tasha Tudor
• Géricault
• Edward Gorey
• Grace Miceli

• Naomi Campbell
• Isabelle Huppert
• Nicole Kidman
• Candy Darling
• Grace Jones
• Tilda Swinton
• Zoe Saldana
• Diana Ross
• Katharine Hepburn
• Grace Kelly
• Lea T
• Bette Davis
• Greta Garbo
• January Jones
• Lucy Liu
• Greta Garbo
• Kim Novak
• Fleur Delacour
• Vanessa
• Gong Li
• Catherine Deneuve

• Samuel
• Katherine
• Marie
• Claude
• Clifford
• Ruth
• Angeline
• Mary
• Blume
• Lula
• Donald
• Faga
• John
• Joseph
• Golda
• Anne
• Merrill
• Haldor
• Mildred
• Betty
• Melissa

• Lauryn Hill
• Tiye Phoenix
• Roxanne Shanté
• MC Lyte
• Mae Day
• Brittany Street
• Hedonis Da Amazon
• Likwuid Stylez

• fur
• hot water
• beads
• smooth skin
• suede
• buttery leather
• silly putty
• cracked or semi-cracked eggs
• hearts

• taking the river-walk and crossing rotting train tracks over the Fox River
• a run through a massive storm with a tiny umbrella
• kayaking in the Skokie Lagoon
• swimming as it rained
• nature spa
• staging A Midsummer Night's Dream on the Lake Michigan beach
• silliness in the grass by the Baha'i temple
• hundreds of walks during early teen-year summers
• goodbyes in Mahoney Park
• watching the sunset on the Bass Hole boardwalk
• exploring Appleton on foot

• Colonial Williamsburg
• Elkhart Lake
• Disney World
• Bass Hole
• Yarmouthport
• Mackinac Island
• Fort Sheridan
• Gettysburg
• Windmill Beach
• Skokie Lagoon
• Greenfield Village

• Sandy Dennis
• Katharine Hepburn
• Allison Janney
• Catherine O'Hara
• Madeleine Sherwood
• Jane Adams
• Deirdre O'Connell
• Natalie Wood
• Angela Lansbury
• Miou Miou
• Helena Bonham Carter
• Amy Adams
• Chloe Sevigny
• Isabelle Huppert
• Liv Ullmann
• Ruth Gordon
• Maggie Gyllenhaal
• Cher
• Lily Tomlin
• Geraldine Page
• Shelley Winters

• The Big Lebowski
• The Out-of-Towners
• Some Like it Hot
• Fargo
• Pee Wee's Big Adventure
• Bringing Up Baby
• The Philadelphia Story
• Le dîner de cons
• The Great Dictator
• Duck Soup
• It Happened One Night
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• His Girl Friday
• The Lady Eve
• Airplane!
• Mean Girls

• Beat Street
• Hollywood Mirror
• Too Cool (RIP)
• Sweets (RIP)
• PaperSource
• Barnes & Noble
• Half Price Books
• Thee Fish Bowl
• Wilmette Pet
• Vagabond Imports

• "The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works." (James Joyce)
• "Avec un peu d'imagination, on peut très bien vivre toute sa vie en un soir." (Jean Anouilh)
• "He felt a deep love for the runaway boy, like a wound, and yet felt at the same time that this wound was not intended to fester in him, but that it should heal." (_Siddartha_, Herman Hesse)
• "It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word." (Andrew Jackson)
• "So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair." (Antonin Artaud)
• "There is no sinner like a young saint." (Aphra Behn)

• A.A. Milne
• Roald Dahl
• Katherine Patterson
• J.K. Rowling
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Lois Lowry
• Lemony Snicket
• Louis Sachar
• Edgar Eager
• Shel Silverstein
• Lewis Carroll
• Tasha Tudor

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• The Glass Menagerie
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Uncle Vanya
• The Cherry Orchard
• Metamorphoses
• Macbeth
• Wedding Band
• The Burial at Thebes
• The Night of the Iguana
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• The Children's Hour

• Honey (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
• Susan (Bringing Up Baby)
• Miss Caswell (All About Eve)
• Irina (The Three Sisters)
• Mona (Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean)
• Lolita (Lolita)
• Jeanne (The Passion of Joan of Arc)

• Rodez
• Oxford, Mississippi
• Martha's Vineyard
• Nantucket
• Beaver Island
• Last Chance
• Green Gables
• Flannery O'Connor's farm Andalucia

• banana bread French toast for breakfast
• a long nap for two on the hill
• buying lovely things from under-the-radar stores
• making a collage
• fried chicken for a late lunch
• red wine and cheesecake before bed
• get a truly deep night's sleep

• Emerald green
• Kelly green
• Sea-foam green
• Forest green
• Mint green
• Blood orange
• Honeysuckle
• Periwinkle
• Cerulean
• Silver
• Aubergine
• Fuschia
• Lilac
• Violet

• Evangeline (good news)
• Aurélie (gold)
• Antonin (worthy of praise)
• Damien (to tame)
• Shoshannah (lily, rose)
• Adrian (from Hadria)
• Felix (lucky)
• Lily (lily flower)
• Sylvie/Sylvia (forest)
• Iphigenia (of royal birth)
• Lotte (free man)
• Sonja (wisdom)
• William (protection)
• Michael (Who is like God?)
• Oliver (elf army)
• Veronica (victory bringer)
• Jane (God is gracious)
• Svetlana (light)
• Lilah (night)
• Alice (noble)
• Laurence (laurel-crowned)

• Canton, Ohio
• Cape Cod
• Disney World
• Washington D.C.
• Philadelphia
• Miami
• Oxford, Ohio
• Wisconsin Dells
• Elkhart, Wisconsin
• Clarksburg, West Virginia
• North Carolina beach
• Manhattan
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Colonial Williamsburg

• Medical malpractice trial
• Midnight showings of Rocky Horror
• Pride parade
• Bat mitzvah party in an omelette store
• Thanksgiving dinner at the Brown Derby in Disney World

• Vivian Darkbloom (Lolita)
• Fleur Delacour (Harry Potter)
• Dolores Haze (Lolita)
• Estella (Great Expectations)
• Ermengarde (A Little Princess)
• Miss Havisham (Great Expectations)
• Calpurnia (To Kill a Mockingbird)
• Anne of Green Gables
• Esmé Squalor (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
• Coraline
• Veruca Salt (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)