Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. -- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993

I enjoy reading because it's always been an escape for me. Reality just sucks sometimes and by reading I can enter another world. I enjoy photography because I have an eye for the oddest things at the oddest times. I carry a camera in my car because I love to drive and when I'm driving I find the coolest things I like to shoot and print. Photographs are "frozen moments in time." I enjoy horses because I grew up with them and there is nothing like the feel of horse flesh beneath you or the wind in your hair when you are in a full out gallop. I enjoy history because it's interesting to me and by knowing the past I feel we can better predict the future. I enjoy the theatre and the movies and the opera and classical music because it adds culture to my diet and it's a good form of entertainment. I love to travel because I like seeing new places and seeing different people and their cultures. I love being outdoors on sunny days, the smell of oranges and the touch of rose petals.