Gwendolyn Piper Steeves:
Notes from Aunt Dawn

Books

• Any Oprah's club series
• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
• Tara Road
• Pilot's Wife
• Glamour Magazine

TV/Movies

• #1 favorite of Aunt Dawn: City of Angels
• Life as a House
• Somewhere in Time
• Under the Tuscan Sun
• Titanic
• Purple Rain

Music

• Music from City of Angels
• Garth Brooks
• Tim McGraw
• Faith Hill
• Phantom of the Opera
• Cindy Lauper

Places

• Lake Tahoe—play the nickel slots, take a drive
• Nantucket/Cape Cod
• Traverse City—Grand Beach Hotel Main floor room with the sliding door open to hear the water rushing back and forth off the beach
• San Francisco
• Higgins State Park—the water is fed from a spring and always clear
• Grand Blanc—because this is where your Mom, Aunt Dawn, and Uncle Jerry grew up
• Batesville, AR (in the Ozarks)—sits in a valley, try catfish, Grandpa grew up here
• The Big House in Ann Arbor
• American Girl Store in Chicago
• London—Stonehenge,1st Hard Rock Café
• Florida—Beaches, Disney World
• Sleeping Bear Dunes—walk all the way across to look at Lake Michigan
• Gatlinburg, TN

Things everyone should know how to do

• Study hard
• Go to college
• Fall in love
• Have a huge wedding
• Stay close to family
• Write/e–mail your cousins weekly
• Get a dog
• Clean house
• Have lots of plants