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Monday, July 13, 2020

My Top 10 Def Leppard Songs.

  1. "Hysteria"
  2. "When Love and Hate Collide"
  3. "Rock On"
  4. "To Be Alive"
  5. "Promises"
  6. "Now"
  7. "Waterloo Sunset"
  8. "Long, Long Way to Go"
  9. "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?"
  10. "You're So Beautiful"

My Top 10 Journey Songs.

  1. "Send Her My Love"
  2. "When I Think of You"
  3. "Trial by Fire"
  4. "Open Arms"
  5. "When You Love a Woman"
  6. "Ask the Lonely"
  7. "If He Should Break Your Heart"
  8. "Mother, Father"
  9. "Separate Ways"
  10. "All That Really Matters"

My Top 10 Showtunes.

This was not easy.
  1. "The Phantom of the Opera" from The Phantom of the Opera
  2. "If I Can't Love Her" from Beauty and the Beast
  3. "With One Look" from Sunset Boulevard
  4. "For Forever" from Dear Evan Hansen
  5. "Prima Donna" from The Phantom of the Opera
  6. "Helpless" from Hamilton
  7. "Light" from Next to Normal
  8. "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" from Rent
  9. "'Til I Hear You Sing" from Love Never Dies
  10. "Ring of Keys" from Fun Home

Sunday, July 5, 2020

50 Favorite Books.

  1. Jane Eyre
  2. Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block
  3. Sense and Sensibility
  4. The Phantom of the Opera
  5. Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
  6. The Complete Book of Flower Fairies
  7. Living a Beautiful Life by Alexandra Stoddard
  8. Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards
  9. A Little Princess
  10. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  11. Little Women
  12. Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block
  13. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  14. Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L'Engle 
  15. Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
  16. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
  17. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
  18. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  19. Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
  20. Choosing Happiness by Alexandra Stoddard
  21. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  22. From the Bones Out by Marisa de los Santos
  23. Ghost Girl by Amy Gerstler
  24. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
  25. Blue Beyond Blue by Lauren Slater
  26. The Best Small Fictions 2017
  27. Life is Meals by James and Kay Salter
  28. It by Stephen King
  29. Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See
  30. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
  31. Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff
  32. Eight Cousins
  33. Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
  34. Ruby by Francesca Lia Block
  35. The Good Earth
  36. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  37. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer 
  38. Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chboksy
  39. A Fine Romance by Susan Branch
  40. Breakfast at Tiffany's
  41. Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
  42. The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
  43. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
  44. An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
  45. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
  46. How to be Parisian Wherever You Are by Audrey Berest, et al.
  47. The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon
  48. Fahrenheit 451
  49. The Catcher in the Rye
  50. Contagion by Erin Bowman

30 Selfish Wishes.

  1. The perfect free house with space for a guest room, a study, and a playroom. 
  2. The perfectly equipped backyard with a swing set and slide and a trampoline.
  3. Help from the Innovations Waiver, now (no ten-year wait!).
  4. A cure for me.
  5. A gradual cure for Oliver.
  6. A cure for Josh.
  7. Perfect skin.
  8. A steady weight of 125 pounds.
  9. Naturally black, curly hair.
  10. Perfect teeth.
  11. Perfect eyesight. 
  12. Cooking ability and joy.
  13. Better reading focus.
  14. Icy cold drinking water any time, anywhere. 
  15. Three hours a day for reading.
  16. Three hours a day for writing.
  17. Oliver's sleeping through the night in his own room.
  18. A part-time secretary for paperwork and submissions. 
  19. Unlimited supply of the retired Dark Stardust Sakura Gelly Roll pens.
  20. Unlimited supply of returning and new prestige Hard Candy cosmetics (currently converted to a Wal-Mart brand).
  21. Unlimited PB Teen furniture, bedding, and decor. 
  22. A Madame Alexander 10-inch Cisette Jo Goes to New York Trunk set.
  23. A Madame Alexander 10-inch Cisette Jane Eyre doll.
  24. Unlimited money to buy gifts for people I love (or just like). 
  25. Unlimited online classes with Francesca Lia Block.
  26. Miss Katie (our OT) as a part-time nanny.
  27. Money to get us through a Ph.D program for Josh.
  28. Unlimited Loft clothes.
  29. A free new Honda for Josh.
  30. Annual shows on Broadway.