1. Sardinia
2. Buenos Aires
3. Vancouver
4. Seattle
5. Portland
6. Hawaii
7. Japan
8. Turkey
9. Peru
10. Costa Rica
11. Nova Scotia
12. Scotland
13. Australia and New Zealand
14. Iceland
15. Morocco
16. Berlin
17. Aix en Provence
18. Belgium
19. Amsterdam
20. Joshua Tree
21. Sweden
22. Puerto Rico
23. Alaska
24. Portugal
25. Chile
26. Montana
27. Maine
28. Cuba
With apologies to Crayola.
1. Asparagus
2. Aquamarine
3. Midnight Blue
4. Lavender
5. Periwinkle
1. Other people's fireplaces wafting through the air on the first cold night in our new house.
2. Pepperoni pizza with garlic and extra basil, Wednesday night.
3. Albee school of dance, circa 1983
4. Sun-warmed pears my uncle grew, Sicily, 2006.
5. Illicit lipstick, Brighton Beach, 1979.
6. Pine trees, Colorado, August 1990.
7. Muddy campus, Brooklyn College, early spring 1989.
1. Attending an experimental theater production.
2. Being made to participate in team-building activities.
3. Working in a middle school.
4. Worrying about bedbugs.
5. Expecting rationality in places ruled by irrational tyrants.
1. Turning down my one chance to be a flower girl at age 3.
2. Scuffing up my own shoes in anger at age 9.
3. Getting rid of my early-80s Seventeen Magazines in a fit of pre-college cleaning.
4. Sticking with a therapist who used to periodically doze off and then blame it on my "disconnecting," during my twenties.
5. Falling down the stairs this past October. There is still a dent in my thigh.
1. Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead
2. Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro
3. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
4. My Life in France, JuliaChild and Alex Prud'homme
5. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
1. Passing out while having a boring conversation and falling on my face.
2. Riding in the passenger seat.
3. The dark.
4. Sleeping in an empty house.
5. Wasting time.
1. Manhattan
2. Rushmore
3. Goodfellas
4. Reality Bites
5. Nacho Libre
1. Chew more gum.
1. Exercise.
2. Sun.
3. Read.
4. Nap.
5. Friends.
6. Wine.
7. Warmth.
8. Gossip.
9. Schadenfreude.
10. Domination.
