Okay, I tried to resist, but I got a friendly encouraging nudge, and decided to jump in. Here is my list which I am submitting probably against my better judgement.

1. I have a diabetic black cat with dander problems named Edgar A. Poe.

2.  I know all the words to every song from the musical Hair, and am particularly fond of singing "Frank Mills".

3. Also love the musical movie Oliver! due to a crush I developed on the Artful Dodger (Jack Wild) at the age of five. Still love every greasy scene.

4. Spent a summer working in a necktie factory.

5. Spent a summer living in the same deactivated fraternity/rooming house in Boulder, CO that my father had lived in for a summer thirty years earlier.

6. Was robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight while cashiering at a neighborhood hardware store.

7. Paradoxically believe that things happen for a reason, but that most events occur at random.(see # 6)

8. Spent some time working as a cashier in a truck stop somewhere in the southwest where I mixed drinks behind the counter from my private minibar.

9. Am a skilled rueben sandwich maker.

10. Really miss the mountains.

11. I like people, but am socially anxious and hate crowds.

12. Don't remember much of my twenties.

13. Spent a year in Iowa City fantasizing about getting into the writer's workshop (as if!), while working as a hospital housekeeper.

14. Love Tennessee Williams plays.

15. Am still surprised by how much joy my husband and children bring to my life.

16. Feel like I was born about 20 years too late - I wanted to come of age in the 60's.

17. My favorite college class was a Thoreau, Emerson, and Whitman seminar.

18. Have volunteered on a crisis hotline.

19. Once moved 800 miles on one hundred dollars.

20. One time I lost my purse in the St. Louis airport at Christmas time and had it returned with all my money and plane tickets.

21. I believe in the kindness of strangers (see #20)

22.  I love Gerber daisies and peonies.

23. Don't watch much TV, but am crazy about medical mystery shows and Masterpiece Theatre.

24. Am never bored, but am afraid others may consider me boring.

25. Have great faith in individuals, but none in institutions.

Okay, phew, that was tough. Hard to do one of these without comparing your list to others. Kind of stirs up those feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt, particularly on a site like this where everyone is so articulate and interesting. Anyway - deep breath - here it goes.