Authors
William Maxwell
Graham Greene
John Le Carre
W.B. Yeats
Herman Wouk
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Robertson Davies
Reynolds Price
C.S. Lewis
Anne Lamott
Flannery O’Connor
James Agee
Chaim Potok
Frederick Buechner
Wallace Stegner
Jim Crace
Dorothy Dunnett
Kingsley Amis
P.G. Wodehouse           Sebastian Faulks                       …lots more

Music
David Gray
Paul Simon
Marvin Gaye
James Taylor
Joni Mitchell
Patty Griffin
Sheryl Crow
Allison Krauss and Union Station
Train
Tonic
The Beatles
Michael Buble
Eric Clapton
Sade
Stevie Wonder
Sting
Kim Richey
The Everly Brothers
Jackie Wilson
Bonnie Raitt
The Doobie Brothers
Elton John
Annie Lennox
Shawn Colvin
Ella Fitzgerald
Ray Charles
Sam Cooke
Luther Vandross

Songwriters
Johnny Mercer 
Patty Griffin
David Gray
Dylan
McCartney
Stevie Wonder
Jonatha Brooke
Mike Reid
Kim Richey
Tommy Sims
Elton John
Shawn Colvin
Leonard Cohen   David Wilcox       Bruce Hornsby         Marilyn and Alan Bergman

My favorite Podcasts
The Moth Podcast
A Prairie Home Companion The Stephen Mansfield Podcast                                 Macmost Now Harvard Business Ideacast RedeemerCast                This American Life      Vanity Fair's Writers Reading

My favorite places
Kauai
New York City
Dublin, Ireland
St. Simons, GA   Washington, DC         Boston                              San Diego                           London                       Minneapolis                         The Outer Banks, N.C.     Eastbourne, England

And I am very fond of my town, Nashville, Tennessee

My favorite movies
I do love movies. I don’t usually like to see a movie more than once, so I’ve used that criteria for this list. If I would stop and watch it again if it came on tv, I call it a favorite.

In Bruges
Remains of the Day
Lawrence of Arabia
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The In-Laws
Howard’s End
Immortal Beloved
The Godfather Trilogy
Chinatown and The Two Jakes
84 Charing Cross Road
Vertigo
Notorious
Rear Window
Out of Africa
Three Days of the Condor
Sabrina
To Catch a Thief
The English Patient
North by Northwest
The Matrix
The Sixth Sense
Analyze This
The Freshman
The Departed