Interests: music, gardening, homekeeping, history, Jane Austen, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, collecting, entertaining, San Francisco, Truman Capote, Scrabble, art nouveau, Margaret Atwood, champagne, Hitchcock films, cocktails, slow food, Martha Stewart, labradors, cooking, baseball, family, baking, weddings, decorating, E.M. Forster, origami, New York, W. Somerset Maugham, Julie Andrews, Italy, hydrangeas, arts and crafts, beagles, dahlias, lasagna, Raymond Chandler, Paul Rand, Chagall, Julia Child, Siamese cats, cassoulet, Valentino, Wes Anderson films, Rudyard Kipling, etiquette, Alexander Girard, table setting, Emily Post, Jacques Pepin, Dale Chihuly, fresh summer fruit, Marcella Hazan, chicken hatching, making bows, paella, The McMurray Hatchery Catalogue, Nancy Oakes, Givenchy dresses, Petaluma, 4 h, herbaceous peonies, sweet peas, Old Maid and other card games, Picsaso, Della Fattoria, Olmstead, kittewars.com, Crepe Suzette, Meyer lemons, Gravenstein apples, The Rolling Stones, parties, Donald Deskey, Point Reyes, Artemisia Gentileschi, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Mary Cassatt