- Birdsong
- Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
- Archie
- Tamales
- Black licorice
- Woodsmoke
- Good Table Talk (more often, actually, Bar Talk)
- a Ploughman's Lunch in a pub's garden
- a 5:1 Martini, with a dash of orange bitters and 3 olives
- Wind Chimes
- Telephone calls with my out-of-town kids
- Tacos with my in-town kid (and kid-in-law)
- Resident Taqueria
- Heat
- Daffodils
- Steel-cut oatmeal and a soft-boiled egg