I love playing and winning trivia games.
I love listening to all kinds of music, but I really, really love rock and roll.
I love tea with honey and half-and-half at night, with a blanket over my legs and a new book to read in my hand.
I love gabbing with my hairstylist.
I love grapefruit and oranges and lemons and limes. The smell, the taste, the everything. I love pineapple.
I love a perfect Honeycrisp apple.
I love cheese: goat cheese, gouda, cheddar, brie, you name it. I loved stealing a wheel of gouda with my Lillie girls. I knew we’d be friends forever that day.
I love dogs.
I love the smell of a dog’s paws.
I love the joyful reunion at the end of each day. They teach us to live in the moment.
I love a good, hard yoga session.
I love that I can now touch the ground, where I used to only be able to go a little past my knees.
I love red hair.
I love the smell of babies’ heads.
I love one-on-one time, or small-group time.
I love the underdog.
I love that the internet allows us to connect with people around the world.
I love traveling.
I love that I can take Xanax to get on a plane.
I love peonies and lilacs and orchids and begonias and hibiscus.
I love that my husband sends me flowers from time to time.
I love the moment when the lights go down and the band walks on the stage.
I love my parents’ cabin on Deer Lake.
I love small-town junk shops.
I love mid-century modern decorating.
I love buying local and independent.
I love glitter and sequins and sparkles and tinsel and bright colors.
I love sleeping late.
I love getting up early and actually feeling awake. (it never happens, though.)
I love elderly people.
I love big sunglasses.
I love postcards.
I love learning.
I love random acts of kindness.
I love when you let someone in in traffic and they wave at you.
I love when someone lets you go ahead of them, or you let someone go ahead of you, at the grocery store because you have less stuff.
I love people who get excited about everything.
I love when you’re sitting next to strangers at an event and they turn out to be super fun.
I love natural, safe ingredients.
I love soap.
I love ballet flats.
I love massages.
I love being with my family.
I love figuring out a new outfit from clothes I already have.
I love people who go for broke.
I love animals, but not insects, except for butterflies.
I love writing.
I love when good things happen to good people.
I love hot summer sun.
I love Hawaii.
I love magazines.
I love laughing at people’s jokes.
I love line-dried sheets.
I love long conversations.
I love big vocabularies.
I love craft shows and art fairs.
I love craft shows and art fairs.
I love hot pink lipstick.
I love the idea of universal healthcare, marriage for all, wage equality, the power of choice, and making sure no one gets left behind.
I love the scent of lavender.
I love picking out gifts.
I love the library.
I love snail mail.
I love coffee-table books and documentaries.
I love neck and shoulder rubs.
I love impromptu dance parties and singing in the car.
