Love/Hate Challenge

I’m in the middle of editing and rewriting sections of the fourth book in The Rocheport Saga, when along comes a tag from my friend Sarah over at The Old Shelter. Well, this challenge is pretty simple: list 10 loves and 10 hates, then tag 10 others.

I had a tough time limiting my loves to 10! The ones I picked, in no particular order, are:

1. Tea
2. Airships
3. Sailing ships and yachts
4. Wood fires
5. Fine Art. In particular the works of Grant Wood and Charles Burchfield, the Art Deco and Art Nouveau movements, and the Tonalism painters.
6. Music. Particularly classical. My favorite composers being Handel and Vaughan Williams.
7. Solitude
8. Writing Instruments — except ballpoint pens, which I hate.
9. Good food — especially Italian
10. Books

To come up with 10 hates was a bit difficult! These are the ones I came up with, again in no particular order:

1. Coffee
2. Travel by airplane
3. Ballpoint pens
4. Traffic
5. The telephone
6. People who talk constantly
7. Know-it-alls
8. Over use of perfume
9. A day without a package in the mail
10. A day without seeing something beautiful

Now to tag: Alice, Ben, CL, Jenny, Karen, Holly, Sophia, J Evan, Stanislava, and Jane!