1. This view, from the living room of my father’s house, which I’ve been privileged enough to call home for 35 years.
2. Having Rob Wilson named the first male spokesmodel on The Price Is Right
3. Seeing Joshua Bell play Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato
4. My Bamm-Bamm Rubble toothpaste cap cover
5. The Failla Chardonnay and Pinot Noir Sam uncorked for a dinner party
6. Having a drink with Peter Farrelly, whom I haven’t seen in a dog’s age, and John Hamm, who is way hotter in person
7. My friend’s brass knuckle iPhone case
8. My nephew’s 10th birthday party (that’s him and his brother), especially when his friend looked at my brother’s mother-in-law and demanded to know if she was from Arkansas.
9. My new bracelet by April Soderstrom
10. Finally seeing War Horse (the play, not the movie, which can’t possibly be as good.)
11. The press release inviting me to meet 70s porn oddity Ron Jeremy and sample his new brand of rum
12. The fortune cookie I got on National Coming Out Day that said, “One must dare to be himself, no matter how frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”