Things I like: dogs; living in the Bay Area; cooking and eating and writing about it; swimming in the ocean; West Marin; backpacking; small towns; yoga; organic leafy greens; Woody Guthrie; farmers markets; running, Scotland; freshly-laundered sheets; my frère; cheese (all except goat); Dylan Thomas; Ravenswood Zin; getting out of town; Yosemite Ntl. Park; new books from the library; avocado-and-Emmenthaler sandwiches; Sebastopol; heirloom tomatoes in season; John Steinbeck.

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