• Public Education
• Public Health Initiatives
• Poverty and Homelessness -- seeking improvements on a local level via grassroots organizations, mostly.
• Individual crowd sourcing/fundraising to help individuals with health issues, etc.
• Violence prevention / fundraising for local nonprofits who help.

• "When She Is Old and I Am Famous" by Julie Orringer.
• "Full Circle" by Edith Wharton
• "Fat Ladies Floated in the Sky Like Balloons" by Amanda Davis
• "July Saturday" by Jacqueline Woodson.
• "The Habit of Loving" by Doris Lessing
• "Quicksand" by Nella Larson
• "Passing" by Nella Larson
• "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway
• All of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories
• "Mathilda" by Mary Shelley
• "Together and Apart" by Virginia Woolf

• My sense of direction
• Car keys/house keys
• Key card for my workplace
• Library card
• My child's socks
• One sock out of a pair
• Notes I've jotted down for myself
• Articles I've ripped out of magazines
• DVDs
• CDs
• Books
• My driver's license
• Food from the work fridge (there is a food thief where I work)
• My patience with the anonymous food thief
• Photographs, stickers, embellishments and other supplies
• Pieces of toys and games
• The cap to the milk, oddly enough

• Linen water in the bath (Mrs. Meyer's, etc.)
• Old Tazo tea bags in the bath
• Philosophy Soul Owner Exfoliating Foot Cream
• Philosophy fragrance, Amazing Grace
• Philosophy Handmade Hand Cream
• Philosophy 3-in-1 Ultra Rich Shampoo, Shower Gel and Bubble Bath in Pumpkin Pie, Cinnamon Buns, Senorita Margarita, Amazing Grace and Gingerbread Man
• Philosophy Purity Made Simple One-Step Facial Cleanser
• Chanel fragrances: Coco, Coco Mademoiselle, Chance, No5. (Note: Currently on the "bad" lists, again-- not complying with agreements re. animal testing. Chanel is losing its wings for me, sadly.)
• Baking soda for tooth whitening
• Tom's of Maine toothpaste for blemishes

• Photos of daughter and husband
• Tuffy's ashes (my late, beloved cocker spaniel)
• Small bottle of Bombay Sapphire
• Bottle of Mod Podge
• My laptop
• Box of Mallomars
• Postcards from the following cities: NYC, Paris, Lucca, Chicago, San Francisco, Madrid, Madison.

(Proust Questionaire) I'll never be famous enough to be on Vanity Fair...

• What is your current state of mind?

Sleepy.

• What is your idea of perfect happiness?

8-10 hours of sleep with pleasant dreams and spooning.

• What or who is the greatest love of my life?

Peppo.

• What is the quality you like most in a man?

Critical thinking, deep intelligence, kind humor.

• What is the quality you most like in a woman?

Critical thinking, deep intelligence, kin...

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• Idaho
• Illinois
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• Kentucky
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• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
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• Scrabble
• Cranium
• Apples to Apples
• Boggle
• Scattergories
• Trivial Pursuit
• Life
• Battleship
• Mastermind
• Taboo
• Imaginiff
• Clue
• Monopoly
• Balderdash
• Pictionary
• I've Never... the Game of Truth
• Sequence

• 3-M
• Brita
• Calvin Klein Fragrances
• Clairol
• Clorox
• Colgate-Palmolive
• Cover Girl (P&G)
• Dial Corporation
• Giorgio Beverly Hills
• Helene Curtis
• Hill's Pet Nutrtition
• Iams
• Johnson&Johnson (except used their soap in the hospital-- issued to me-- after giving birth... don't know what I was thinking)
• Kimberly-Clark
• Lever Bros.
• Mennen
• Noxema (P&G)
• Playtex

• Charlotte and Emil Rothstein
• All my grandparents
• Gautama Buddha
• Albert Einstein
• Marie Curie
• Emily Dickinson
• Charles Dickens
• Berenice Abbott
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Margaret Bourke-White
• George Balanchine
• Galileo Galilei
• Richard Wagner
• Richard Strauss
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Bobby Short
• Lee Miller
• Catherine the Great
• Andre Kertesz
• Harry Truman
• Jonas Salk

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• Chelsea Clinton
• Kerry Washington
• Ellen Page
• Denzel Washington
• Charlotte Rampling
• Paul Newman
• Halle Berry
• Joan Cusack
• Joanne Woodward

• Chutes and Ladders
• Hungry Hippos
• Candyland Bingo
• Hi ho cheerio
• Jump rope rhymes
• String games
• A pickup sticks-type of game where the pieces were shaped like saws, ladders, pitchforks, etc. I can't remember the name. Arg!
• Hand clapping rhymes
• Perfection
• Hi-Q
• Simon
• Yahtzee
• Mr. Mouth
• Twister
• Seven-up
• 4-square
• Dodge ball
• Kick ball

• Chasing Amy
• Kissing Jessica Stein
• Giglio
• Poison Ivy
• Wild Hearts
• Striptease
• Titanic
• Waterworld
• Spice World
• Caddyshack 2
• Runaway Bride
• Encino Man
• Moulin Rouge
• Ever After
• Little Nicky
• Police Academy 5, 6 & 7 (what was I THINKING?)
• The Firm (ruined the book)
• The Polar Express (ruined the book)

• Billy Elliott
• The Red Balloon
• Some Kind of Wonderful
• Stand By Me