For reasons unknown, a lot of my readers ask a lot of personal questions about me. To help answer a few, I’ve compiled this list, in no particular order, of 17 things I really like:<\/p>\n
1. A train whistle blowing in the distance late at night.<\/p>\n
2. Cold weather.<\/p>\n
3. Rain.<\/p>\n
4. Cloudy, gray skies.<\/p>\n
5. The ocean.<\/p>\n
6. Lakes.<\/p>\n
7. Rivers.<\/p>\n
8. Books.<\/p>\n
9. Reading The New York Review of Books.<\/p>\n
10. Newspapers.<\/p>\n
11. The 2nd movement of Beethoven’s 7th\u00a0Symphony.<\/p>\n
12. Jimmy Smith playing the Hammond B3 organ.<\/p>\n
13. The novel A Prayer for Owen\u00a0Meany by John Irving.\u00a0<\/p>\n
14. A kosher hot dog.<\/p>\n
15. Pink grapefruit juice.<\/p>\n
16. Oranges.<\/p>\n
17. My dog Princess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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