- computers
- gardening ( cross pollination)
- Art appreciation (museums)

-Country
-Paranda

-Splendor in the Grass - Grease
-Chicago - The Color Purple -Forrest Gump -Fiddler on the Roof

-The Sopranos -Weeds -Big Love
-The Golden Girls - The Tudors
- The First 48

-The Great Gatsby - Beka Lamb-The Giver
-Like Water for Chocolate -Of Mice and Men -Siddhartha Hermann Hesse -Roots
- Black Boy - Chronicles of a Death Untold - Always Running -Brave New World - Lord of the Flies -Wuthering Heights- The Iliad -The House on Mango Street -The Blues Eyes -The Crucible
-Pride and Prejudice - Frankenstein
- Farewell to Manzanar - To Kill a Mockingbird -

What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

-Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Hannah More