The Best

Places

• my own bed
• Buckingham Fountain in Chicago, at night
• Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago
• the Garden District in New Orleans
• Michaul's restaurant in New Orleans
• the Oregon coast
• The Altantic beaches in Florida
• the Indiana dunes
• Turkey Run State Park in Indiana
• the Rocky Mountains
• the Mountain Gap Inn, near Digby, Nova Scotia
• the lobby of the Riversreet Inn in Savannah, GA, at happy hour
• (of historical note)The Milltop in St. Augustine, FL (which, sadly has lost all of its charm)
• Valparaiso University

Fiction Writers

• Douglas Adams
• Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Carlos Castaneda
• Agatha Christie
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• David Eddings
• Frank Herbert
• Carl Hiassen
• Tony Hillerman
• Franz Kafka
• Madeleine L'Engle
• Anne Rice
• Dorothy L. Sayers
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Kurt Vonnegut
• P. G. Wodehouse

Miscellaneous Things

• fresh snow
• cats (OK, dogs too.  Pets in general; they're all the best.  But cats are The Best.)
• lightning bugs (yes, I do mean fireflies.)
• the moon
• red wine and pretzels
• California navel oranges
• fireplaces
• jig saw puzzles
• Celtic music
• the real Blues
• potato salad
• violets and dandelions
• blowing bubbles

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