Patry Francis

Steve Earle, Duke Ellington, Tori Amos, Ella Fitzgerald, Helen Hume, Bob Dylan, Youssou N'dour, Mozart, Rene Gruss, Lucy Kaplansky, Louis Armstrong, Bruce Springsteen, Lori McKenna, Alison Krauss, Dar Williams, U2, Celtic music

Small Island, We have to talk about Kevin, The House of Sand and Fog, poems by Mary Oliver, Czeslaw Milosz, Adam Zagajewski, and Cesar Vallejo, Possession, Anna Karenina, Madam Bovary, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, On the Wings of a Dove, Felicity's Journey, Town House, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Epicure's Lament, We Were the Mulvaneys, Bird by Bird, How to Make a Literary Life, Alice Munro, William Trevor, Lionel Shriver, Joyce Carol Oates, , Dostoyevski, Margaret Atwood, Charles Dickens, Donna Tartt, Tess Gerritsen, Khaled Hosseini

Cinema Paradiso, Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Laura, Niagara, To Catch a Thief, Breaking Away, The Upside of Anger, Little Women (the original) Notorious, Romeo and Juliet (1969 version) Splendor in the Grass, Almost Famous, The Departed, Good Will Hunting

Charlie Rose, Murder by the Book

Writing, reading, fitness, meditation, philisophy, Ireland, Italy, good versus evil, ecology, the Red Sox, and what to have for dinner, Dancing, blogging, yoga

Catholic with Buddhist sympathies

The Sheraton, New Seabury Resource Managements, Various small restaurants.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Brockton High School

Not much of a joiner