This week’s Sunday Stealing is My Favorite…whatever.
1. Favorite food
I always say spinach lasagna because I like lasagna, and I like spinach. I actually like making lasagna once a year, usually three or four of them, because it does not that much more effort. (It’s messy, or I’d do it more often.) But it has to be cold outside, so turning on the oven is worth my while.
But in truth, my fave is probably chicken. Baked, fried, Cajun, whatever.
2. Favorite color
There’s this existential war between green, which is, after all, my last name, and blue. It’s somewhere in that “cool” color range.
3. Favorite Animal
In that aren’t they interesting category, sloths. There was a piece about them on 60 Minutes recently. Their slow motions allow them to survive. That sounds like good advice for many humans.
Most of my pets have been cats, though.
4. Favorite thing to do on a cold day
If not making lasagna, then reading a book while listening to music.
5. Favorite vacation spot
The two places are both in upstate New York: Lake Placid and Niagara Falls.
6. Favorite TV show
CBS Sunday Morning. It’s a magazine of the air I’ve watched regularly since 1979. I’m really happy that the video recorder and then the DVR player exist because they’re on while I’m at church.
7. Favorite Mythical creature
Lenny, named for Leonard Bernstein: see above
Theodor Geisel
8. Favorite fairy tale
Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss. It’s a kid speaking truth to power. And Oobleck is green.
9. Favorite thing to draw
Somewhere in this blog, though I can’t find it immediately, I wrote that I can’t draw. I almost failed 4th grade art. You do NOT want me to be the person who draws for your Pictionary team. And when I wrote about this, a few people said anyone can draw. This may be true, but I have been shamed for decades out of even wanting to try.
10. Favorite scent
Lilacs. Growing up in Binghamton, NY, we had a tree right next to our house.
11. Favorite mode of transportation
The train, such as Amtrak. I don’t like flying, though I did it twice in 2023 for reasons of time.
12. Favorite vegetable
Corn on the cob
13. Favorite candy
York Peppermint Patty or a Mounds bar, which I find in my Christmas stocking every year. Santa remembered!
14. Favorite sport
To play, when I was able to, racquetball, which I loved not just because I didn’t suck at it, but for the relationships. I used to play with, among others, two of my best friends, Norm and Mike, both of whom died too early. I also liked volleyball.
To watch: the National Football League, but not in real time. I record it, avoid the email/phone, and watch a 60-minute game in about an hour and a quarter instead of three hours.
15. Favorite weather
Temperate. My tolerance for extreme weather – hot and muggy or frosty – has definitely declined. Albany is getting snow right now, but it hasn’t been that frequent, so I don’t mind.