1. Dinner parties.
2. The first latte of the day.
3. Nap time with a book just good enough to lull you into sleep.
4. A decade-old magazine.
5. Day three of a thirteen- day trip. When you've hit your stride but are not yet longing for home.
6. Parisian almond croissants.
7. Magicians' miniature pennies.
8. Finding folded twenties in a forgotten pocket.
9. A hair cutter who hands you a stack of magazines rather than impose unwanted conversation on you.
10. Movie matinees.
11. Finding the just-right stretch that works out the nagging knot.
12. Escaping to somewhere tropical after a long winter.
13. Hearing "The Boys of Summer," in a shop, which happens to me without fail once a year.
14. Crawling back into a well-worn movie.
15. Velvet.
16. The smell of cologne tempered with cigarette smoke.
17. Cards and cocktails on a Sunday afternoon.
18. Marcona almonds. Truffled popcorn (this one is a tie).
19. The hour immediately after a safe landing, a personal new year's day.
20. Etymological dictionaries.
21. Feeling too tired to fret.
22. A crisp white wine and a dish of olives.
23. Finding out someone I like hates the same things I do.
24. Unexpected free time.
25. An awareness of the arrow of time.
26. Honeysuckle.
27. Long days, short nights.
28. Rock flute.