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Okay Other, here are my answers to all those burning questions ...



Things that scare me:

Deep water
The dark
Drugs




People who make me laugh:

Dakie Dunn



Things I hate most:

When people lie to you and you know they are lying and they know you know but they expect you to accept it anyway
And I’m not really fussy about creepy crawly guys, like slugs, and millipedes and things …



Things I don't understand:

Electricity
How trees get water to go up to their branches
If we are never tested beyond our ability, why do some people give up?




Things I'm doing right now:

Well, I should be working but I’m bored so I’m doing this




Things I want to do before I die:

Finish writing at least one book
Finish my house
Plant a garden
Raise some goats



Things I can do:

Sing
Write
Fly a spinnaker
Chop wood & carry water



Ways to describe my personality:

Nervous, but hopeful




Things I can't do:

Speak in public
Fly for real like I can in my dreams
Change the Universe




Things I think you should listen to:

Wind in the pine trees
Water rushing over river stones
Crickets on a warm summer evening
Your heart




Things you should never listen to:

People who gossip
Heavy Metal
Rap
Demons in your head




Things I'd like to learn:

The bohdran
The guitar – I’m working on this one
Small engine repair




Favorite foods:

KD
Bacon
Swish Chalet Chicken
Home made soup – when I make it




Beverages I drink regularly:

Water
Tea




Shows I watched as a kid:

The Tommy Hunter Show (Canada's Country Gentleman) – yes I watched that too
Red Skelton - Good night and God Bless
Westerns with my dad
The Friendly Giant – another Other favourite
World Series – we grew up on baseball in my home town
Perry Mason – now I watch CSI




2 moments in your life you'd like to erase:

I never got arrested but I could have done without that anyway. But there isn’t anything I’d erase. I’d be incomplete without all the stupid angry ill conceived thoughtless inconsiderate things I’ve done and erasing 2 of them wouldn’t really make that much difference. Leave it be.

4 moments you'd like to relive:

My father’s visits after he died – to see if it was really him
Singing in my first competition – and this time I would sing
Playing baseball in the sun with my cousins in the grassy field next to their house




2 places you wouldn't want to go to/go to again:

Rochdale
The burn unit at Sick Kids





4 places you can't wait to visit/visit again:
Scotland
Tibet
The Sahara
Saskatchewan





2 foods you can't stand:

Tongue
Head cheese

4 foods you love:

French Vanilla ice cream
Raspberries
Cantaloupe
Potatoes – baked, French fries, mashed, scalloped, boiled with butter & fresh dill … yum




2 current songs that make you change the station:

I don’t listen to radio either




4 records you play over and over:

I don’t play records all that often except when I’m trying to learn a new song



2 books you'd never finish/read again:

The Horse Whisperer
The Da Vinci Code



4 books you have read more than once, and/or will read again:

The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
Shambala – The Sacred Path of the Warrior - Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien


... and that's all I have to say about that.