Black Beauty; The Yearling; What Color is Your Parachute; Blink; Museum and Art Gallery Catalogues; Travel magazines; lots of pictures

Home Depot's "Decorating 1-2-3"

On my leather sofa, or anywhere with my toy poodle in my lap. Also, on the/any veranda overlooking: Carmel Beach; Napili Beach; Flamingo Beach/Sugar Beach; Shaw's Cove; Yosemite Valley; San Clemente; Hakone, Atami, or Kyoto; etc...

Art Matters: the local art scene and what it means to Colorado
ArtScene Colorado: museums, galleries and artists' studios
EHow articles online
Japanese cuisine
Poetry: haiku in Japanese and English
Letters for ELL and Foreign Correspondence
Dear Aunt Edna and Grama:  the Japan Chronicles

Fiction: Children's, Crime, Gay/Lesbian, Historical Fiction, Horror, Humor/Satire, Literary, Military/Espionage, Mystery, Political, Religious/Inspirational, Romance, Sci Fi/Fantasy, Sports & Adventure, Teen, Women's Fiction

Non-Fiction: Art, Architechture & Photography, Body, Mind & Spirit, Business/Money, Computing & Internet, Cooking, Food & Wine, Gay/Lesbian, History, Home & Garden, Humor, Memoir/Narrative Non-fiction, Outdoors & Nature, Parenting & Family, Pets, Politics & Current Affairs, Reference, Religion, Science, Self-Help, Sex & Relationships, Sports & Adventure, Travel, True Crime, Women's Studies

Screenplay: General

Spendthrift poodley glamor grrrrl in a bikini on Carmel Beach body surfing.

Eudora Welty; Ogden Nash; Gladwell; David Pogue; Basho; John McPhee; Singer; Elie Wiesel; Corby Kummer;  myself