Broadway musicals
Ketelby

Anything by Jack Kerouac, J.D. Salinger, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bruce Jay Friedman.

Gates of Heaven
Pulp Fiction
Swedish movies

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I was a very active, athletic 65-year old: in the year before diagnosis I (a) placed 13th (in my age group) in the Chicago area running circuit, (b) rode my bike solo 1000 miles across the desert and mountains from New Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, (c) completed a 35-mile cross-country skiing marathon race in Ottawa, and (d) placed second in the U.S. in short-course orienteering -- map-and-compass races in rugged terrain. All this came to a screeching halt when Dr Fred Lee gave me the news about my serious PC.

Diagnosed May 2005 with T3b, Gleason 4+3. As result of Jim Waldenfels and others, have attempted triple-hormonal blockade for past 24 months, and PSA has slowly declined to 0.03.

Attended both Dr Snuffy Myers' International Conference on Prostate Cancer in Reston, VA in October 2006 and the PCRI Conference in Los Angeles in Sept. 2007...both excellent.

Would like to get local therapy..think I have oligo-tumor PC which are discretely confined tumors that yield well to radiation. But have an AUA score of 16 with significant retention, which would be made worse by radiation, perhaps a complete urinary blockage. It would be nice to cut the obstructions out of there with an RP...but would surgery get all of the T3b cancer? So I continue to wait, hoping like Jim that cancer cells will slowly die from the ADT.

Long-distance bicycling
Orienteering in U.S. and Europe
Running 5k and 10k races
Victorian architecture
Cross-country skiing
Nordic cultures