Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor. Hugh Elliott

Photography (duh!), Reading (I'm an English major), Watching my kids grow up in to beautiful young ladies, Music (most anything will do), Cultural Diversity (getting out of my own box, and in to yours...)

Anna Nalick is my new find, Avril Lavigne, Christina Aguilera, John Legend, Liz Phair, etc

The Mermaid Chair, The Secret Life of Bees, Silver's Edge and Silver's Bane, The Memoirs of Cleopatra, Imajica, Jane Eyre, older Anne Rice Vampire and Witches Chronicles, When or Where