Stuff

1. My favorite chapstick flavor is strawberry.
2. I don't tan. Ever.
3. I want to own a children's bookstore.
4. Favorite children's book - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
5. I have a tendency to slip into a midwestern accent while reading the Richard Scarry story "Speedboat Spike." It drives the kids crazy.
6. I love movies - some might say I live my life inside movies.
7. I have an irrational and obsessive fear of bugs, germs, and broken glass, so much so that it can disrupt my daily living.
8. I can't whistle.
9. The redwood tree that I brought home from kindergarten in a dixie cup is still growing in my parents' backyard. UPDATE: The tree is coming down! :-( It had nice run of 25 years though.
10. I have stood on the cliff of Inis Mor of the Aran Islands.
11. I want to go to the Isle of Man.
12. I collect quotes.
13. One of my favorite quotes is
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943)
14. Something I want to do but think I'd be too afraid: take a hot air balloon ride.
15. Something I thought I'd be too afraid to do but did anyway: rode on the back of a motorcycle.