• Watching the gorillas in Lincoln Park Zoo
• Reading in the Lincoln Park Conservatory (especially in the winter)
• Martinis at the Green Mill
• Weekday nights at the Kingston Mines
• Exploring Graceland Cemetery
• movies in the parks
• picnic at Montrose Harbor
• Taking the pup to the beach, especially in the fall when it's just us
• Music Box Theater
• Chagall windows at the Art Institute
• Breakfast at Stellas
• Renegade Craft Fair
• Andersonville Mid-Summer Fest
• Mucca Pazza
• The New 400 and The Davis theaters
• Book Cellar
• Dave's Vinyl on Clark
• The Chicago History Museum

• sewing
• knitting/crocheting
• yoga
• book club
• photography
• guitar
• darts
• billards
• poker
• kayaking/canoeing
• biking
• bookbinding
• cooking
• baking
• hiking
• urban gardening

• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• Lyddie by Katherine Patterson (a 4th grade favorite)
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
• Anything by David Sedaris
• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Grand Central Winter by Lee Stringer
• Dry by Augusten Burroughs
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Margaret Bourke-White

Eugene Richards

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Nan Goldin

Cindy Sherman

W. Eugene Smith

Alfred Stieglitz

Bernice Abbot

Walker Evans

Julia Margaret Cameron

Annie Leibovitz

Edward Weston

• Canada
  • ✔ Montreal
• Mexico
• Brazil
• Chile
• Peru
• Colombia
• Italy
  • ✔ Rome
  • ✔ Florence
  • ✔ Cinque Terre
  • Venice
  • Milan
  • Lake Como
  • Sienna
  • Sicily
  • Naples
• Greece
• ✔ France

• The Godfather, Parts I-III (yes, even III)
• Harvey
• It's A Wonderful Life
• Return to Me
• When Harry Met Sally
• Oceans 11
• Iron Jawed Angels
• Shawshank Redemption
• The Sandlot
• King Kong
• City Lights
• Going the Distance
• Away We Go

• 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover-Paul Simon
• Gentlest Gentleman-My Brightest Diamond
• I Wonder-Chris Issac
• This Years Love-David Grey
• Tell Yer Mama-Norah Jones
• Are You Lonesome Tonight?-Elvis Presley
• Stormy Weather-Etta James
• Lost Cause-Beck
• Positively 4th Street-Bob Dylan
• Delicate-Damien Rice
• You Oughta Know-Alanis Morrisette (talk about angry)
• Let Him Fly-Dixie Chicks
• F*&^ You-Cee Lo Green
• Don't Think Twice (It's Alright)-Bob Dylan
• In the Wee Small Hours-Frank Sinatra
• Sick of You-Cake
• I just don't think I'll ever get over you-Colin Hay
• For the Good Times-Al Green

• Apathy
• Neediness
• Constant negativity
• procrastination
• persistent victim-hood
• intolerance
• bad temper
• lack of self-control
• insecurity
• messiness
• attention seeking
• immaturity
• self centered and unable to view other perspectives
• bullying

• A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
• What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstron...
• Here Comes the Sun By The Beatles
• The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel
• You Can't Always Get What You Want by Th...
• Feeling Good by Nina Simone

• ✔ Vermont (Born and raised)
• ✔ New York
  • ✔ NYC
  • ✔ Buffalo
  • ✔ Parishville/Colton/Canton
• ✔ Massachusetts
  • ✔ Boston
  • ✔ Dartmouth
• ✔ Texas
  • ✔ Houston
  • ✔ San Antonio
  • Dallas
  • Austin
• ✔ Washington, D.C.
• ✔ Illinois
  • ✔ Chicago
• ✔ Indiana

• American Pie : Don Maclean. A timeline of rock and roll, a song that always reminds me of my father
• Two Step : Dave Matthews Band. Greatest concert song. Dancing with friends
• Kathy's Song : Simon and Garfunkel
• River : Joni Mitchell. Because sometimes I need a song to feel sad to.
• Keep it Loose, Keep it Tight : Amos Lee. My first semester of college in Chicago, taking long walks through the loop to the Chicago river and back.
• Summertime : Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong : going to Cedar Island with Sommer and Kate, summers in middle and high school
• any christmas music <3
• Here Comes the Sun : The Beatles. Makes any day better.
• Clair de Lune : Debussy. quiet nights home

Staples

• fruits and vegetables
• beans
• quinoa
• quinoa pasta
• coconut milk
• brown rice
• chicken/pork/turkey
• minced garlic
• gluten free rice protein powder for breakfast smoothies
• gluten free oats
• EVOO
• Balsamic Vinegar
• lemon juice

Snacks

• rice cakes with natural peanut, almond or cashew butter
• roasted almonds.
• sugar free applesauce

• In My Life, The Beatles
• American Pie, Don Mclean
• Toward the Sun, Alexi Murdoch
• Clair de Lune, Claude Debussy
• I'll Be Seeing You, Billie Holiday
• Love Me Tender, Elvis Presley
• What A Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong
• Flowers Never Bend, Simon and Garfunkel
• All the Wild Horses, Ray Lamontagne
• Smile, Madeleine Peyroux
• Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding
• Here Comes the Sun, The Beatles

• Susan B. Anthony-crusader for women's rights
• Lucy Stone-suffragette, abolitionist and first woman to keep her name upon marriage
• Anastasia Gentileschi-renaissance painter, early feminist, rape survivor
• Alice Paul-dedicated her life to fighting for women's rights
• Sojourner Truth-"Ain't I A Woman?"
• Margaret Bourke-White-photograher
• Ruth B. Ginsberg-Supreme Court Justice

La Marlee--Chagall

Judith Slaying Holofernes--Gentileschi

The Dream--Chagall

Sunset in Venice--Monet

Flaming June--Leighton

Mother and Child--Glimt

Life and Death--Glimt

Blue Nude--Picasso

Elvis-Andy Warhol

Nighthawks--Hopper

From the Lake--Georgia O'Keefe

Flower Head--Dali

Christina's World--Wyeth

The Star--Degas