I have never cared that much about the lives of actor/actresses, but I started following some of their antics when I became interested in Charlie Sheen. I think decades ago they were more admired sometimes. George Clooney is hot! Why has he never been married???
Even though we don't have one, I like dogs since my sons have allergies. I think I would go with being a poodle, but I do prefer to be a human being even though life is often challenging!! It would be difficult to be dependent on a person for food, taking a walk, and being let outside to go to the bathroom! I think I will stick with homo sapiens!!

I guess george clooney is the question?
He probably likes the bachelor life, I've heard he's a real workaholic and travels alot. Maybe being married would make that harder to do.
My 8 yr old has bieber fever. Has the whole Justin Bieber phenomenon touched your life in any way?

I love most of George Clooney's work, especially enjoyed Oh Brother where art Thou!
Hmmm... Justin Beiber has not come close to touching my life. I did read an article about him in Vanity Fair, and that about covers it.
Where do you plan to go on vacation this year?

I plan to take a one day bus trip to Oak Park (near Chicago) to tour some Frank Lloyd Wright homes. Does that count? I had my 2 big vacations in Jan, Feb, and March when I was in Florida for 2 weeks and Alabama for one week! Now I have to stay home for awhile!
Do you become fearful during a tornado warning?

I can't remember the last time Ontario had a tornado warning but if there was one I would be terrified! I've seen the havoc a tornado can have on houses, people, tossing cars around like they're tinker toys, very scary. Was happy to hear about the baby that was ripped from his brothers arms was found perfectly fine! Those stories give us all hope!
The cornfield across from my house is currently filled with hundreds of snow geese, which even here in Canada, are rare to see. My question is; do u see the snow geese where u r and do u think this has anything to do with global warming?

We don't get tornado warnings in Ontario - they just come and nobody warns us! I live in southern Ontario and we get a few a year or every few years. In fact, not too long ago one touched down in Mount Forest and destroyed a hardware store my husband and I had just left 15 minutes earlier! I still remember the one that went through Barrie in 1985 - when the sky turns green, find cover!
We don't see snow geese where we are - just lots of aggressive and noisy Canada geese.
Do you prefer to window shop or hike in the woods?

Answer:
So option 1 is travelling on packed roads on a hot bank holiday to a hotter city with air quality warnings, to sit in a queue to pay a small fortune to park the car, to wander through a desolate concrete jungle to jostle with 126,874 noisy, smelly people and their children, to look into shop windows at overpriced things I don't want and can't afford; and then queue to travel home again, pausing only to fill up the tank (which costs about the same medium-sized fortune as an overpriced near-tea-beverage and sickly bun-with-wasps in the shopping mall).
And option 2 is walk out of the back of my house into the New Forest, down the heath with all the butterflies - passing the highland cows and calves, watching the soaring buzzards and the swooping swallows, across the small stream and into the cool wooded enclosure of majestic trees and dappled light, perchance to see a deer, hear a woodpecker, watch the ants making their nests, see the new pony foals dozing, and to be sure to hear mostly birdsong, breathe fresh air, get plenty of gentle exercise (good for the AF) and return home to a cool elderflower cordial.
I suspect by now you might have worked out my own answer.
Question :
(prompted by thoughts of Bill Bryson's book "A Walk in the Woods")
In your opinion: who is the second best travel writer?

Gee - I guess I can figure out which you prefer! My girlfriends love to window shop, but I prefer to hike in the woods myself. That's mostly because I get offended by over-priced commodities and I genearlly don't like people much - or rather I don't like crowds. Some people are ok. It sounds lovely where you live!
I likve Tim Cahill (Jaguars Ripped My Flesh is a great read). But I also think The Innocent Anthropologist by Nigel Barley is hilarious.
Who is your favourist non-fiction writer? (not a travel writer!)

Whoopi Goldberg .... So funny
Do you have a phobia or fear of something? For example, I'm afraid of " crunchy" bugs ( hard shelled bugs hence the "crunch" when you stomp on them! Wierd, I know...

Heights can give me fits, but I try to work through my fears. I went up into the "Arch" in St. Louis with my college algebra group because I knew that would most likely be my only opportunitiy. I also went to the top of the Sears building in Chicago via the elevator. I did enjoy eating in the restaurant atop the Space Needle, however!
Do you find it difficult to have much time for reading?