1. This year I purchased Barnes and Noble's ereader: The nook. Great tech gadget for those who love to read.
2. It's Christmas time and these are the movies that I never get tired of watching year after year: Love Actually, The Family Stone, Elf and Bridget Jones Diary.
3. Favorite Netflix rental this year was: The Long Way Round and The Long Way Down with Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman. A motorcycle adventure that kept me at the edge of my seat all the way round and down.
4.Shopping the Farmer's Markets. Talking to the vendors and learning about new foods.
5. Taking Amtrak to Berkeley and spending the day browsing the 4th Street shops and having dinner before hopping the train home is my new favorite daytrip to the bay area this year.
6. Nothing beats the Sunday edition of the New York Times when I was to treat myself to a lazy Sunday.
7. Baking from the Sweet Melissa Cookbook, Mark Bittman's weekly videos on the NY Times website, and Hungry Nation's Working Class Foodies turned me on to some great new recipes this year.
8. The Moth Podcast. Also, the Radiolab podcast. Listen and you'll understand why. Both are amazing podcasts and amazingly both are free on itunes.
9. The Bucolic Plague a memoir written by Josh Kilmer-Purcell tells the story about how they came to be Gentleman Farmers. This led to the TV show on Plant Green TV "The Fabulous Beekman Boys" which shows life on the Beekman Farm. It's great fun!
10. Bored to Death...Jason Schwartzman, Zack Galifinakis and Ted Danson are brilliant together in this HBO series.
11. Gwyneth Paltrow's goop.com is still my favorite newsletter. Very hip and very cool.
12. Eat Pray Love. Armchair traveling all the way to Italy, India and Bali...delicious cuisine in Italy, sparing with Richard Jenkins at an Ashram in India and falling in love with Javier Bardem in Bali...what's not to love? Movie was great-the book was even better.
