Summer Survey with Friends: Yours Truly

Painting: Edward Hopper Second Storey Sunlight (1960)

I announce the summer of 2012 survey of friends and loved ones. As per usual, I will use myself as guinea pig first in line. Please stay tuned for my line-up of distinguished guests. 

1.     The best use for peanut butter: thai peanut sauce, peanut butter and chocolate ice cream, plain and natural.

2.     A great gift you would like to receive but no one has ever given you: a Volkswagen.

3.     Fiction or non-fiction (and favorite title): fiction and non if it is well written (most celebrities should not publish books), anything by M.F.K. Fisher or The Sun Also Rises or An American Childhood.

4.     A food everyone loves to eat but you think is overrated: cake pops.

5.     Ideal temperature for sleeping: cool night air.

6.     One thing you love about camping: cooking and eating charred goodness.

7.     One reason you do not camp more often: i am not comfortable with tent nylon.

8.     Favorite thing about nighttime: sleeping, quiet, bugs making noise.

9.     Ideal music for a summer evening: Van Morrison.

10.  Your thoughts on s’mores: i love them. they are a staple of summer. i need to eat them at least once more this summer. i like a quality graham cracker.

11.  Would you ever live in the South? yes, i would like to live in a verdant town and eat local peanuts in a sleeping porch and sip from a glistening pitcher of lemonade.

12.  If you stole an art piece, which one would it be? probably a pen and ink that i could frame.

Fifteen Questions: The Family Show

Stay tuned for a new round of guesting. We'll hear what the family has to say. Here is my debut. Photo by Brian.

A question that should never be asked: "Do you have anywhere to go for the holidays?"
Food you are renowned for preparing: breakfast, cheese souffle with Brian.
A treasured object: my bed and kiki.
Favorite scripture story: 1 Kings 17. The widow of Zarephath, the barrel of meal, the cruse of oil.
Best color to wear: red.
Favorite See's candy: anything marshmallow, milk chocolate, and caramel, and cashew brittle.
Ideal species of animal: seals (they get to swim all day).
If you were to get a cat, what would you name him/her? Bonny Blue. (chances are slim I would have a cat.)
Favorite movie: Howards End.
A place you would love to visit: a rainforest.
Cake or pie: Texas sheet cake.
What makes marachino cherries so red? Mother Nature.
Best part of Disneyland: Main Street shop windows and the memory of the steps of those who have gone before.
An object that should never have been invented: the scale for humans.
A song you like to sing: "You Are My Sunshine" and Johnny Appleseed.