Things I like:

Playrooms
The Major (Motoko Kusanagi)
Foxy Brown
Big Sur
My daughter Lillian
Bobby the cat
Milk chocolate bars
Merlot
White and pink roses
e.e. cummings
knitting
tote bags and t shirts
bracelets
marble floors
hotels and rented castles
the ersatz elevator
little women (I like Amy, I don’t care what anybody says)
Ninja Turtle kites
Uniball fine line markers
My students (when they work and are ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT LIFE)
Gertrude and Alice on the boat to France looking dykey as all hell
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
My dead parents and grandparents and cool Aunt Lil
My alive family
My adopted family: Robert, Andrea, Erika, Hilary, Theda, Jamie, and Christi
My friends – too many to list
The Terminator movies
Double-tall lattes
dresses (fancy)
Hippos
Elephants
The Diviners and the Divinyls
Joni Mitchell and Tim Buckley
Going out to lunch
Quills
Agent Provocateur
Being driven to the ocean
And that’s just for starters . . .