Category Archives: Favorites

Favorites, Music

Songs on My “Sleep Time” Playlist

  1. I Love You Too Much – Carlos Santana
  2. Soldier – Gavin DeGraw
  3. Feels Like Tonight – Chris Daughtry
  4. Pieces – Sum 41
  5. Don’t Know Why – Nora Jones
  6. Spell It Out – Gavin DeGraw
  7. Crown Royal – Jill Scott
  8. Your Body is a Wonderland – John Mayer
  9. Where You Are – Gavin DeGraw
  10. Come Away With Me – Norah Jones
  11. Smooth – Carlos Santana/ Rob Thomas
  12. Let Me Take You There – Plain White Tees
  13. Turn Me On – Norah Jones
  14. Crash Here Tonight – Toby Keith
  15. You Know Where I’m At – Gavin DeGraw
Favorites, Holidays

Fourth of July Favorites

  1. Fireworks!
  2. Watermelon
  3. Red, White & Blue everything, everywhere
  4. Patriotic music
  5. Parades
  6. Small-town festivals
  7. Summer heat
  8. Watching the movie “Independence Day”
  9. Flags everywhere
  10. The sense of community – Today we are one.
Favorites, Nature

Things I Miss About Living in the Country

  1. Thunderstorms rumbling through the valley
  2. How green everything is after a lightning storm
  3. Coyotes howling outside my window
  4. The wonder of Springtime, finding things growing you didn’t know were there
  5. Harvest-time, tractors in the field, clouds of dust
  6. Hay-rack rides
  7. Blinding brightness after an ice storm
  8. Evergreens bowing under heavy snow
  9. Bird song choirs that never cease
  10. Woodpeckers
  11. Walks in the woods
  12. Creeks skipping by
  13. Next door neighbors a mile away
  14. Hummingbirds at my window

    No special filters, no time lapse...just the sunlight through the trees - Cazenovia, Illinois 2006
Brands, Favorites, Links, Monday

Monday Magic

Products I use because they work like magic or close enough to it to make me never want anything else

  1. Downy Wrinkle Release
  2. Fenofibrate (which I buy even though I don’t have insurance anymore because it’s actually working and I don’t want to stroke-out at the age of 45.)
  3. Garnier Length & Strength shampoo and conditioner
  4. Regis Clarifying shampoo (to remove chlorine)
  5. Eucerin Plus Intensive Repair lotion (to combat chlorine again)
  6. Tide Coldwater Free
  7. Static Guard
  8. Playtex Sport feminine products
  9. Sharpie markers
Family, Favorites, Holidays, Memories

Favorite Easter Memories

  1. Early morning Sunrise Services, sitting outside, shivering in the early desert air
  2. Breakfast in the church fellowship hall
  3. Beautiful dresses sewn by my mother
  4. Dying eggs  –the smell of vinegar, writing on eggs with a white crayon, leaving them in the dye a long time to get vivid colors
  5. Hiding and seeking the eggs
  6. The year my dad hid an egg in the rafters of the front porch and it wasn’t found ’til months later
  7. Easter hymns: “Hear the bells ringing they’re singing that we can be born againnnnnnn…”
  8. Imagining the wonder of the women who found the empty tomb
  9. Easter baskets with chocolate and jelly beans and plastic grass

    Easter Sunday, Late 70s