i like...i don't like

I Like:

women
Jeans
baggy T-shirts
boxer shorts
sandles
loose swimming trunks
sleeping
pillows
taking showers
flowers
pine trees
waterfalls
Riding the Train to work
Star Trek
Coffee with cream and sugar
vanilla ice cream
chocolate ice cream
children
laughter
Movies
science fiction novels
thinking
history
genealogy
philosophy
libraries
new snow
clean sheets
computers
the Internet
altered states
guitars
music
headphones
The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix
Phil Keaggy
Loreena McKennitt
Enya
Clannad
Van Morrison
Mary Jane LaMond
Celtic Music
Soul Music
Rock Music
Punk Music
Blues
classical
world music
pizza
hamburgers
mexican food
chinese food
bleu cheese dressing
swiss cheese
american cheese
chili with mashed potatoes
Port wine
German Ice Wine
tuna fish
tahini sauce
hot sauce
honey
stuff rigatoni
chicken baked in wine
sean connery
angelina jollee
cool, california
tucson, Arizona
Ft. Lauderdale, FLA
Cancun, Mexico

I Don't Like:

liars
slavery
dictators
politics
pain
toothaches
gout
in-laws
tight swimming trunks
whitey-tighty underwear
strawberry cookies
strawberry icecream
postum
religion
oversleeping
thorns and jaggers
mud
slush
doing laundry
cat hair
dogs in the house
cleaning up after dogs in the house
paying bills
worring about money

how can she compete against a boy

My daughter Elizabeth has been doing good here in Chicagoland. She's got a boy friend.

She's been athletic, but not here in Chicagoland
...But she's now in the school drama club, where she met Aaron.
They were in the spring play together last year...Snow White. He played the King and she, a tree;
...a talking tree, so she even had lines

He's a year older than her...in highschool...and they became fast friends.

At first, he was "her boyfriend". Lately it's "he's not my boyfriend...he's just a friend".

But fathers know that look...
fathers know better....

Now, she's crying
now she wants to move back to Pennsylvania;
now she can't compete.

He invited her to the local highschool coffee house.
"Who's going to be there?"
"Oh, just me and my friends, and people who like me, and people who hate me,
and Shane"
"Who's Shane?"
"My crush. Didn't I tell you? I'm bi-sexual."

She prided herself on tolerance. We even had thanksgiving dinner with her gay cousin.
One of our favorite tv shows is Will & Grace.
"It's funny how it's easy to be OK about gays, until it's you own friend" she says.

I tell Annie why Liz is so upset.

She doesn't know how to compete with a boy.