"Getting
to Know You,
Getting to Know All About You..."
~ Rodger
& Hammerstein from The King and I
Favorite
TV shows:
* Sunday Morning:
2 CBS, 6:00 am
* The
View: 7 ABC, 10:00 am
* Oprah: 7
ABC, 3:00 pm
* Frasier:
4 NBC, Tues, 9:00 pm
* Lassie
Favorite TV
hosts
* Oprah
Winfrey
* Barbara
Walters
* Huell Howser
* Diane
Sawyer
Favorite
plays:
* Phantom
of the Opera (with Michael
Crawford)
* The King
and I
* Flower
Drum Song
* Same
Time, Next Year
* On
Golden Pond
"Live each day as if it were your last.
Learn as though you were going to live forever."
Favorite
authors:
* Richard
Bach
* Dean
Koontz
* Henry David
Thoreau
* Laura
Ingalls Wilder
* Ruth
Montgomery
* Napoleon
Hill
Favorite
books:
* Illusions
by Richard Bach
* Watchers by Dean Koontz
* Tuesdays
with Morrie by Mitch Albom
* The Four Agreements by
Don Miguel Ruiz
* Hawai`i by
James A. Michener
* Alaska
by James A. Michener
* Centennial
by James A. Michener
* The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
* Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
* Agony
and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
* Companions Along the Way
by Ruth Montgomery
* The
Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas
* Anything by Napoleon Hill, especially Think and Grow Rich
* Anything by W. Clement Stone
* The Good Book
Favorite
children's books:
* Golden
Books
* Horton
Hatches the Egg
* Little House on the
Prairie books
* The Secret
Garden
* Harry Potter
books (links)
Favorite
poems:
* "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
* "The
Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost,
* "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
by Wm. Butler Yeats
* "Song
of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman
* all poems by
Emily Dickinson
Favorite
quotes:
*
Desiderata
by Max Ehrmann
* Waging peace. Random acts of kindness.
* I can. I will. I can because I will.
* To create is to live.
* Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
~Confucius
* Diversity is something positive. Identical people have nothing to offer each
other.
Favorite
words:
ambrosia, angelic, blessing, bliss, blue, bunny, butterfly, calm,
caress, celestial, cerise, charisma, creativity, crystalline, daffodil,
dawn, darling, dear, delicious, desire, dew, divinity, dolphin,
effervescent, elegance, eloquence, enchanting, enlightening,
exuberance, epiphany, essence, eternity, fairy, faith, fawn,
fluffy, free, gentle, glistening, glow, glory, grace, happy,
harmony, home, honeydew, honor, hope, journey, joy, juicy,
kindness, kisses, love, lullaby, luminescence, lyrical, melody,
mercy, moonlight, morning, muse, mysterious, mystical, peace,
puppy, purple, quiescent, quintessential, rain, rainbow, radiance,
renaissance, rest, saffron, satin, serenity, serendipity,
simplicity, sincerity, sky, snowflake, soft, sparkling,
splendiferous, starlight, subtle, sunlight, sunshine, synchrony,
tranquillity, trusting, twinkle, whisper, wonderful, zephyr
Least
favorite
words:
anal, angst, anxious, barf, belch,
betrayal, bigot, booger, bugger, can't, crabby, crud, crude, despair,
detest, diarrhea, doodoo, dork, doubt, dung, entrails,
erysipelas, failure, fatty, fault, flunk, fool, foul,
freak,glutton, goiter, gout, gripe, gross, grubby, grunt, guacamole,
guilty, gunk, guts, hate, heinous, hell,
hemorrhoid, horrible, horror,
hurt, hyena, hypocrisy, idiot, infidelity, jab, jugular, junk, kill,
lie, loser, maggot, malignant, mean, mooch, mucous, never, penal,
pervert, phlegm, phony, pissed, puke, putrid, rancid, rape, reek, refuse,
rotten, rut, scum, slime, spit, spite, sucks, tofu,
treachery, ugly, ulcer, victuals, vomit, wart, wretchedness,
zit
Favorite
metaphors:
* Poetry is the very marrow of the bones of feeling.
* Her words of encouragement were pebbles delicately tossed in the pond, causing a
pleasing pattern of happiness and effort in her students.
* You're sweet; good enough to eat.
* Prayer, God's breath in man returning to his birth ~Herbert
* The
remarkable metaphor of Merlin. ~TA
Barron
Favorite
similes:
* Life is like a bowl of cherries; sometimes it's sweet and tangy, and
sometimes it's the pits.
* A mind is a lot like a parachute; it doesn't work unless
it's open.
* My love is like a red, red rose.
~Robert Burns
* "And so I passed the night with her like a thirsty little camel
whose muzzle keeps it from nursing." ~Ibn Hazm
* Language exerts
hidden power, like a moon on the tides. ~Rita
Mae Brown, writer (1944- )
Favorite
teachers:
* Pre-School & Elementary School: Alana Lee,
Isabelle Pereira, Donna Weiss Saiki
* Intermediate School: Vivian Araujo Stephenson,
music appreciation teacher; Virginia Isbell, Girl Scout leader; Isaac Keli`ipi`o,
guardian, mentor, instructor, and lifeguard.
* High School: Nancy White, Chemistry teacher & Dr. Kenneth
Rewick, headmaster & Preparation for Life Teacher
* College: Dr. Don Whitehead, professor of Ecology,
Dr. May, professor of Religion; & Dr. John
Griffin, researcher
* School of Life: Dad, Lucky, Grandmother
Satsuma,
Grandfather I, Lanikaula, Mary Kawena Pukui, Maleka `Ohi`a, Sinkar,
Silver Feather, and Florence.
"Live each day as if it were your last.
It's an extremelystressful way to live,
but it does motivate a person."
~ Michael J. Nelson, "Life 101"
Favorite
magazines:
* Reader's Digest
* National
Geographic
* Smithsonian
* O
Magazine
* More
* Book
Favorite
E-zines :
* Salon
* The
Onion
* Wired
* Island Scene
* The Third Age
Favorite
websites:
* Artchives - Arts & Letters Daily
* Blue Mountain
- Pacific
Expressions
* dictionary.com
- Merriam-Webster
* Drudge Report
* Reference Desk
Favorite
newspapers:
* LA
Times - OC
Register
* Honolulu
Star-Bulletin - Honolulu
Advertiser
* NY Times
* USA Today
* BB
Grizzly
Favorite
comic strips:
* Corky
- Corky's
HI - Corky
SB
* For
Better or Worse
* Get
Fuzzy
* Rose
is Rose
* Spooner
Favorite
columns:
* L
Smith - C
Adams - A
Archerd - R
Reed
* George
Will
* Salon columnists
* W
Harada - Dave
Donnelly - J
Berger
* City
of Angles - Al
Martinez - C
Erskine
Favorite
search engine:
* google.com.
