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Favorites
Place? Home
Drink? First cup of tea in the morning
Coffee? Green Mountain, with milk
Favorite food? Popcorn with butter, bran muffins (not too sweet) and strong coffee, bacon and eggs cooked over an open fire while camping, pickled herring.
Airport? Syracuse, NY – short security lines and free wifi
Airport restaurant? Sora Sushi Bar, Detroit airport, Terminal A, near Gate 36
Airport bathroom? Chicago O’Hare
Flowers? Sunflowers, daffodils, hollyhocks, wisteria
Season? Winter
Skin product? Sunscreen that protects against both UVA and UVB wavelengths
Book written by LHA? Don’t have a favorite yet... The elusive “best novel”
Mountain range? Breathtaking = Colorado Rockies, hometown favorite = Adirondacks
TV show? NCAA Basketball March Madness
Holiday? Thanksgiving
Chocolate? I don’t really like sweets much. But dark chocolate is way better than the other waxy kinds.
Movie? It’s A Wonderful Life, Van Helsing, Rocky, Last of the Mohicans.
To Wear While Writing? pajama pants, slippers and hoodie sweatshirt
Mode of transportation? Under 15 miles: running, over 15 miles: train
Favorite song? Hotel California (live version) by The Eagles and Clocks, by Coldplay.
Favorite city? Tough question! San Francisco, with Paris running a close second. But I have many more I want to visit.
Favorite books? There are several hundred of them, but these leap to mind first:
American Gods, Neil Gaiman (and everything else he wrote)
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Chris Crutcher
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Ulysses, James Joyce
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Borrowers, Mary Norton
Holes, Louis Sachar
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott
Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block