it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny

• Do you take notes or jot down ideas online or with a pen and paper?

  I have ideas all over the place: on my phone, laptop, Kindle, scraps of paper, journal, notebooks, sticky notes... Every now and then (like this weekend, as I'm writing this) I pull them all together and compile into one list - or, more likely, just throw the whole thing out and start again. (I sincerely hope that made some Type A's gasp in horror!

• Do you prefer to avoid or confront conflict?

  confront—but that takes two grown-ups, and therefore doesn't happen very often

• What board game are you unbeatable at?

  not "unbeatable," but I quite like Chinese Checkers

• What book are you currently reading?

  Turn to Stone, the seventh in the Ellie Stone mystery series by James W. Ziskin

• What book would you recommend other people read?

  The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington

• What do you cover your frozen yogurt with?

  strawberries

• What is the best date you have been on? 

  a southern-style pizza and drinks and a surprise band, on a patio with fire-pits, on a warm summer night. It was fun, unexpected, not expensive, funny, great people-watching, comfortable, and uniquely (and low-key) romantic.

• Say you were given a kitten, what would you name him/her?

  Bob or Tom or Trina

• What is your favorite Christmas movie?

  Holiday Inn 

• What is your favourite store?

  anyplace with books

• What is your go to movie theater snack?

  fresh, hot, buttery, salty popcorn and a Coke

• What was the last movie you attended?

 1917

• Who is your least favorite actor?

  I just don't get Will Ferrell 

[from here; the title quotation is by Coco Chanel]