My Facts . . .

Favorite color: any shade of blue, I love all the blues

Favorite food: pizza; Swiss cheese on seedless rye bread or Wasa light flat, crisp bread; or lobster or shrimp spread on Wheat Thins

Favorite drink: GFIC's Café Française, any kind of coffee, Zephyrhills water, 2% milk, apricot or pear juice

Favorite places: Florida, N. E. Iowa, Chicago, NYC, San Diego, San Antonio, Sweden, Canada, England, France, and Italy

Favorite music groups: Air Supply, Bertie Higgins and his band of pirates, ABBA, (still kinda like Boston, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, & REO Speedwagon too)

Favorite singers: Ann Murray, Olivia Newton John, Russell Hitchcock, John Denver, Linda Ronstadt, Christopher Cross, Jewel, Elton John, and

Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons and Jersey Boys shows

Favorite new singer: Mary Hogarty of Australia

Favorite book: "Ice Bound" by Dr. Jerri Neilson (sorry to hear she passed away recently)

Favorite author: James Michener

Favorite poets: Emily Dickenson, Langston Hughes, Graham Russell

Favorite artist: Rembrandt, all the Impressionists, and Mary Cassatt, Carl Larsson, & Jackson Pollock

Favorite classical music: all the Impressionists, Mahler, Fauré, - and classical pop - John Williams

Favorite movie: "Gone With the Wind", "Apollo 13", the "Star Wars"movies, "The Day After Tomorrow", "The Polar Express", "RV" and many others

Favorite musical: "The Sound of Music", "Annie", "Oklahoma", "The Pajama Game", "Flower Drum Song" and many others

Favorite TV show: Anything on HGTV (Home & Garden TV), Miss Match (must be off the air now), Reba, Cold Case, Two and A Half Men, 24 Hours, Gray's Anatomy, House, Nanny 911, Ugly Betty, Men in Trees, and the British Comedies on Public Television

Favorite sports team: Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay Rays and Tampa Bay Lightning hockey

Favorite web sites: SHOOTING THE AURORA BOREALIS
by Dick Hutchinson at http://www.ptialaska.net/~hutch/aurora.html
And these too about the South Pole!  http://www.southpolestation.com/
E-bay

Favorite indoor pastime: reading books, magazines, newspapers, sewing projects & other crafts (I want to golf)

Favorite outdoor pastime: family reunions & picnics; watching clouds, sunsets and starry skies; watching snow fall

Favorite talent: art projects, painting portraits & landscapes, playing guitar, crafts, (I'd like to paint murals!)

Favorite animal: dogs, horses, oh - and birds & koala bears

Favorite time of day: evening/dusk - when the very first welcoming lights come on in people's houses . . . like friendly beacons showing the way

Favorite friends: Sandy M., Sandi W, and Karen S.

Favorite on-line friends: MA, PM, BH, Taz, Pam, Mary M, Mary-Jo, Betty, Sandra - and more

Favorite people: middle school age kids, they're the only ones who laugh at my jokes!

Favorite quote: "Clear things may not be seen." Regarding faith and angels, from the poem "Miracles" by Conrad Aiken, from the book Christ and the Poets.

What I'd like written on my tombstone, maybe: "Hey, I still love you kids! And I can still see what you're up to. As always - Love, Mom".

Please note that this page is subject to change as it is a woman's prerogative to change her mind.