What is your greatest fear?
Losing my husband.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Belva Lockwood.
What living person do you most admire?
Henry Rollins.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I can be exceedingly stubborn.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Books. Or food.
What is your favorite journey?
I love traveling through Scotland, particularly the road from Ullapool to Lochinver in the Highlands.
What do you dislike most about your appearance?
I would like to be thinner, of course, and more toned.
What is your greatest regret?
How I handled the death of Autumn.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
M.
When and where were you happiest?
Right here, right now.
Which talent would you most like to have?
I wish I could sing. Or paint.
What is your current state of mind?
Happy.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I would be immortal.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Working for The New York Times, which led to working on a Pulitzer Prize-winning project.
If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
I’d just come back as myself in the next incarnation.
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
Someone who doesn’t suffer from migraines.
Where would you like to live?
Scotland, Canada, New York City.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Intelligence.
What do you most value in your friends?
Good humor.
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Jamie Fraser.
What is it that you most dislike?
Apathy. Ignorance. Religious fervor.
How would you like to die?
One quick bite on the neck followed by immortality? Either that or in my sleep.
What is your motto?
Carpe noctem.
