There are many, many things I love, including:
PEOPLE
(especially my family, people from different backgrounds, and babies)
GREAT CITIES
(New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Seattle are among my favorites)
THE OUTDOORS
(I feel most alive when I am high in the mountains or next to the ocean)
MUSIC
(jazz, blues, rock'n'roll, reggae, Latino, early country, big band, show tunes, classical)
MOVIES
(especially silent, classic, foreign, and independent films—most Hollywood stuff sucks)
BOOKS
(history, biography, cosmology, physics, philosophy, hard science fiction, historical fiction, and John Grisham)
WRITING
(I enjoy dabbling in short stories)
ART
(from the early masters to the Impressionists to modern art, I love it all)
ARCHITECTURE
(one of my favorite things to do is walk around a city and look at interesting buildings)
DOGS/CATS
(I can't decide which I like best)
BASEBALL
(from the school of Bill James)
ETHNIC FOODS
(favorites include Thai, Indian, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese)
HISTORY
(especially American history from 1775 to 1930)
PHILOSOPHY
(Zen Buddhism, Emerson, Bertrand Russell, Sartre, Erich Fromm, Sheldon Kopp)
CALVIN AND HOBBES
(gee, I really miss that kid)
SPACE COLONIZATION
(our species must and will
continue to explore)