Books
Jane Austen, Pearl Buck, Beatrix Potter, Alice Walker, Virginia Wolf, Gloria Steinem, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Milan Kundera, Laura Ingells Wilder, Mark Twain, Stephen Vincent Benet, MML&J, William Shakespeare's sister, Yeats, Joyce, Blake, anything written that can be sung to "Yellow Rose of Texas," Dickens, Dee Brown, Homer, Euripides, Herodites, WH Auden, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Dr. King's Letters from the Alabama Jail, Lady Murasaki, and Judy Collins.... Blogs I like to read are many but the best is "Cincinnati Beacon" because of the political banter
Heroes
My daughters & husband, my nephew Eric, Greenpeace, Pearl Buck, Mother Teresa, Mary the Virgin Mother and her cousin Elisabeth, Angela Merkel, Michele Alliot-Marie, Laura Bush, Hillary, Tipper, Buddha, Mohammed, Chief Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Amiritszu, Genghi, Mohandas Gandhi, Indira Gandi, Golda Meir, Dr. King, Stephen V. Benet, Shirley Chisolm, Robin Lane, Biko (Because) Biko, Gloria Steinem, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Pegi Morton Young, Julian Bond, Joann Pichardo, Dee Brown, Teresa Heinz-Kerry, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Savana Lee, Judy Collins, my sister and her friends, my family big and small, Blaze Monaco, Evan Janoch, Aunties' Peg, Eulalia, Maggie; Sandy & Kani, Grandmas Ina & Jo, Mother Rita, anyone who marched on Washington or rode the Freedom Buses to Montgomery, anyone who volunteered for John Glenn '84 campaign and the Rainbow Coalition, Daddy Leo, Les McCann, Muddy Waters, my college advisor, Dr. B.N. Ramusack, Dr. Eric Wall (the guy who put the rods in Elisabeth's back...), Kitty Dukakis, any survivor or fatality of cancer-related or aids related diseases or substance abuse diseases, anyone buried at Wounded Knee or mass grave, anyone who ever picked up a musical instrument, paint brush or pen and created something from nothing, any child who sticks out of the mainstream, any mother whose child does not follow the typical developmental charts, anyone who is a single parent raising children, and anyone who worked for minimum wage and could put food on the table for their kids ...