The most vital things:
A few dear people who know who they are.
Porlock Vale Riding School, Somerset, England.
Sailing ~ the Caribbean; the Pacific NW; the Indian Ocean… Greece?
Horses in general and specific (Teddy, Killarney, Manitoba Queen, Secretariat)
Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers & my wonderful critique group.
Superfund: the Summitville Mine & the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.
The real me:
Favorite Places:
Exmoor the Dordogne & the Cevennes the Grand Canyon Belize
Vancouver & British Columbia San Francisco Redstone Languedoc/Roussillon
Spanish Peaks York Yellowstone & Grand Tetons Winchester
Cumberland Bay, St. Vincent WI St. Eustacia, DWI Burgundy & the Morvan Isle of Skye Provence Paris
To go before I die:
Delphi and the Cyclades, Greece
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Books More than mere favorites, the books of my heart. Books I wish I had written or could write; books to savor and reread often. Each has its book-story and its me-story. The Horsemasters – Don Stanford (this book changed my life) Alice In Wonderland – Lewis Carol (my very first fantasy) The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien (the book that opened a new world) |
Angle of Repose – Wallace Stegner (the great American novel of the 20th Century)
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (a book to live in, over and over)
The Lymond Chronicles – Dorothy Dunnett (would that I could write like this!)
Sword At Sunset – Rosemary Sutcliff (the best gritty-realism Arthur)
Fire From Heaven – Mary Renault
Odds Against – Dick Francis
The Merlin Trilogy – Mary Stewart (the best magical Arthur, yet so real)
King of the Wind – Marguerite Henry
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (so funny, so sad)
Flesh and Spirit & Breath and Bone – Carol Berg
The Aeneid – Virgil (trans. Rolfe Humphries, but Robert Fitzgerald’s okay, too)
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (a book to live in, over and over)
The Lymond Chronicles – Dorothy Dunnett (would that I could write like this!)
Sword At Sunset – Rosemary Sutcliff (the best gritty-realism Arthur)
Fire From Heaven – Mary Renault
Odds Against – Dick Francis
The Merlin Trilogy – Mary Stewart (the best magical Arthur, yet so real)
King of the Wind – Marguerite Henry
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (so funny, so sad)
Flesh and Spirit & Breath and Bone – Carol Berg
The Aeneid – Virgil (trans. Rolfe Humphries, but Robert Fitzgerald’s okay, too)
My Enduring Passions
La belle France – landscapes, culture, cuisine, history, people, wine
The Matter of Britain – all things King Arthur
Horses – I have worshipped the goddess Epona since I was a toddler
Sailing – though I am a fair-weather sailor and like to anchor at night!
The glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome
George Washington – the Indispensible Man, as James Thomas Flexner called him
Le Tour de France – a sporting spectacular!
World War I – one of history’s clear turning points, fascinating and dreadful
