Family/Other
Interests
- Husband: Bradley McIntosh Broom PhD,
Associate Professor in Computer Science, UT MD Anderson Cancer
Center. Joint affilication with the Gulf Coast
Center for
Computational Cancer Research, the Center for High Performance Software
Research, and the NPACI Programming Tools and Environments Thrust.
- Son: (What a dream
child!) Alexander Do McIntosh
Broom, twenty years old, graduated from Episcopal High School at
seventeen.
Now at Colorado School of Mines majoring in
Computer Science and Statistics.
The joy of my life and the apple of my eye.
Alexander's sports: Kuk sool (Korean martial arts), tennis, swimming, badminton,
bicycling, hiking and skiing in Colorado.
Alexander's hobbies: reading, computer games, piano, Lego,
electric trains, visiting NASA, before he went to college.
- My favorite hobbies:
travelling, brushstroke ink & watercolor painting, reading, bridge,
embroidery, pottery painting, knitting, quilting, cooking and eating
international dishes, wine tasting.
- My favorite sports:
tennis, swimming, badminton, bicycling, hiking. I’d rather be playing tennis.
- My favorite
countries/places to visit: France, Canada, Portugal, Mexico, India,
Scotland, Santorini, Venice.
- My favorite country in
which to live: Australia.
- My favorite country in
which to work: USA.
- My favorite alcohol:
Bombay Sapphire martini, Veuve Cliquot, Hennessey cognac, Bundaberg rum, Cointreau, Australian shiraz, Jordan's cabernet,
California Groth, French Cote-du-Rhone & Chateauneuf-du-pape, Ruffino chianti, Louis Jadot chardonnay & Pouilly
Fuisse, top quality tequila, Sapporo, Corona,
Old Speckled Hen, and Belgian beers ...
- My favorite film stars:
Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Kim Basinger,
Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Charlize
Theron, Kristin Scott Thomas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Oh, Mel Gibson, Ethan Hawke, Harrison
Ford, Sean Connery, Jimmy Stewart, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Tom
Hanks,
- My favorite movies:
Too many to name, but here are several that I really enjoyed: Babette's Feast; Mostly Martha; Spring,Summer,Fall,Winter,...,
and Spring; Tampopo; Une
hirondelle a fait le printemps
(The Girl from Paris); Witness; Tim; Dead Poets Society; the English
Patient; Great Expectations;
- My favorite books: Too
many to name, but here are several that I really enjoyed: One Hundred
Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), Like Water for Chocolate
(Laura Esquivel), Crossing to Safety (Wallace Stegner),
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes).
- My favorite flowers:
orchids, tulips, lilies, roses.
- My favorite
food/restaurants : Chili (Australian) mud crabs cooked by the best
Singaporean chefs; lobster mornay; Tandoori chicken from the Moti
Mahal restaurant in New Delhi;mangoes
from India, Vietnam, or Thailand; Peking Duck and all the seafood dishes
and view of the SF Bay at the Hong Kong East Ocean Seafood Restaurant
(Emeryville, near Berkeley,CA); French food at
the Fleur-de-Lys restaurant (Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas); nouvelle
Hong Kong cuisine at the Jasmine restaurant (Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas),
gourmet organic food at L'Etoile restaurant in
Wisconsin; Steak Diana at Carver's Steakhouse, Sheraton Cavalier Hotel,
Calgary, Canada.
- My favorite musicians:
Classical - Chopin, Vivaldi; Modern - Anne Murray, Dionne Warwick, Enya, Chris Isaacs, Buddy Holly, Santana
....
- My favorite hotels,
B&B’s, and resorts : Pestana Palace
(Lisbon, Portugal); Bellagio Hotel (Las Vegas); Grand Mayan (Acapulco);
Lake Palace Hotel (Udaipur); Novotel Twin Waters
Resort (Sunshine Coast, Australia); Daisy Hill B&B (Nashville); Kananaskis Lodge (Kananaskis,
Canada); l'Hotel Des Grandes Ecoles (Latin
Quarter, Paris); Capitol Hill Mansion (Denver), Halekulani
Hotel (Waikiki Beach, Hawaii).
- Some of my amateur water
color paintings are below.
To see a
real professional artist’s work, check out my teacher’s website Chinese Watercolor by Peihong Dong
Another of my
teacher: Janet Nunn’s website http://janetnunnwatercolors.com/