Foods: Dark chocolate, shrimp fajitas, seafood green curry, and chocolate cake.

Computer: Mac

Color: Blue

Weather: Crisp fall days and summer nights with thunderstorms

Ice Cream Flavor: Espresso Therapy (coffee ice cream with chocolate covered almonds)

Summer hobby: Riding my bike, reading on the deck

Fall hobby: Hiking

View from Mount Jo in the Adirondacks


Winter hobby: Cross-country skiing, reading by the fireplace

Paul Smiths Visitors Interpretive Center trail


Spring hobby: Waiting for my garden to grow

Animals: Gorilla and Frogs

Gorilla at the San Diego Zoo


Leopard Frog at AuSable Point State Park


Beverage: Green tea or water

Rock: Quartz

Tree: Sugar Maple

Season: Autumn

Movie: When Harry Met Sally

Harry Potter Book: #4 – Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire

Writing Outfit: Jeans, a cozy sweatshirt, and really fuzzy socks

Breakfast: Lots of fruit

Flower: Purple asters, because they’re the last flowers in my garden to bloom and because they attract Monarchs

October 2008


Vegetable: Sugar snap peas

Fruit: Really cold watermelon

Holiday: Christmas

Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Games: Scrabble, Apples to Apples

Music: 70s rock and folk music

Sport: Tennis

Superhero: Wonder Woman

Artists: Claude Monet, Johannes Vermeer, Emily Carr, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keefe, Jackson Pollock

Musical:Mamma Mia!

Body of Water: Lake Champlain

Sunrise over Lake Champlain


Monster: Champ! (Lake Champlain’s legendary sea monster)