A Few of Julie's Favorite Things:

Sitting on a cliff in Perranporth, Cornwall, England, eating a pasty from Hayle, watching the waves toss about the body surfers.

Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier. Set in Cornwall, it's the only book I've read where the main character's first name is never mentioned.

Boys, particularly mine.

An almond latte.

Lindt milk chocolate.

Doodling while I talk on the phone.

Ann's homemade salad dressing. Using a fountain pen my brother-in-law made from an exotic South American wood.

Pearls - especially the one cut from an oyster in Maui.

The movie, French Kiss.

Sister-in-laws.

A good hard cover book.

Madeleine L'Engle's Crosswick Journals.

Walking in a field of bluebells.

Seeing my brother Steve waterski.

Standing next to the glass clamshell-shaped lens on Split Rock Lighthouse and looking out over Lake Superior.

Mom's Cranberry Salad.

My brother Mark touring me around the hangar at Northwest Airlines.

Listening to the lines of a salmon reel sing off the pier of Algoma, Wisconsin, then reeling in a Coho salmon.

Walking out to the ice shoves on Lake Michigan on a blustering January morning.

Experiencing with my family the climate change while driving up to Pikes Peak.