Composing music, Internet surfing, Dance Dance Revolution, music transcription, playing trombone, piano, recorder, whistling, singing, video games, tabletop games, bicycling, hiking, massage, cooking

Meeting new people, teaching, mentoring, computer repair, people watching, photography, sports, teaching friends how to drive, proofreading, editing and tutoring English, finances coaching, relationship therapy, personal therapy

Gentle Giant, Emerson Lake and Palmer, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Dixie Dregs, Manhattan Transfer, New York Voices, Apple Pie (Russia!!), THE GOURISHANKAR (Russia!!), Chick Corea, Return to Forever, Weather Report, Yes, Genesis

For Love or Country, Sneakers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Miserables, all Pixar films, Dr. Horrible (Sing-Along Blog)

All works of Robin Hobb; "A Course in Miracles, A Return to Love" by Marianne Williamson, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John C. Maxwell

Family Guy, 30 Rock, Firefly, Dollhouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Simpsons, Glee, Weeds

"We are each of us the creators of both the heaven for which we yearn and the hell from which we flee. Like neighboring camps, both reside within us; and, terrified of love--the one true, divine key to the psychic gate separating our heaven from hell--we lock ourselves out of heaven to suffer endlessly in the hell we have designed exclusively for ourselves. And the answer to our torment is so simple: love; love; love fearlessly, with reckless abandon; let the waves of love crash upon the beaches of your dried and injured spirit; love everyone and everything; turn the key and unlock the heaven that has always been both your proud creation and your human birthright. God is the love you have forgotten how to wield, daunted by all the doubts fear has instilled within you; and heaven is absolute joy, the harvest of any who rediscover the power to love without condition or reservation." - Jamie Calame (January 3, 2010)

• "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell." - E.B. White

"The Buddhist saying – all expectation leads to suffering – applies to all expectations you create in your life, without exception. If you expect a certain outcome in the future and it does not happen the way you want, then you will feel disappointed. If you expect a certain outcome in the future and it does not happen quickly enough, then you will feel frustrated and angry. If you expect a certain outcome in the future and you have attached your inner fulfillment to it happening and it does not happen, then you will feel depressed. If you expect a certain outcome in the future and you have attached your self-worth to it happening and it does not happen, then you will feel like a failure. If you expect to AVOID a certain outcome in the future and you experience it, then you will feel scared."