Relationship
Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking
Hometown
Glasford, IL -- born in Peoria, IL
Places I've been
I've had permanent residences in ILLINOIS (Peoria & Rockford); MARYLAND (Silver Spring); MICHIGAN (Marquette, East Lansing, Lansing, White Cloud); IOWA (Davenport); WISCONSIN (Genoa City, Lake Geneva, Elkhorn, South Milwaukee) and WASHINGTON (Blaine & Bellingham). Internationally, I've experienced Mexico for one week in November, 2000 (during the Presidential election debacle) and have been to Vancouver, BC metro area (including Richmond for dim sum) lots of times.
Education
Work
More about me
Hello.  I'm a transplanted spirit from the Midwest now living in the Great Northwest.
Favorite Movies
Favs on YouTube, Fandango, Bull Durham, Out of Africa, A River Runs Through It, The Sting, The Color Purple, Out of Africa, Apocalypse Now, Legends of the Fall, Bowling for Columbine
Favorite TV Shows
WEST WING, NORTHERN EXPOSURE, DISCOVERY HD, CHICAGO CUBS BASEBALL, SUNRISE EARTH, RED GREEN, ETC.
Activities
bicycling, backpacking, sightseeing, growing older and wiser
Favorite Charities
Green Party, Unitarian Universalists
Favorite Music
CLASSIC ROCK AND ROLL, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Andrea Bocelli DVD concerts (Tuscany & Lake Las Vegas), most 60's, all 70's, no 80's or 90's, the wind in the trees, the rain and thunder, crashing waves on the beach, "GO CUBS, GO!"
Favorite Books
Texas by James Mitchner, On Walden Pond by Hank Thoreau
Favorite Quotes
"I am what I am." - Popeye, "do-be-do-be-do" - Frank Sinatra
Favorite People
Ralph Nader, Archibald Cox, Mo Udall, Ernie Banks, Hank Thoreau, Barack Obama
Favorite Places
Wrigley Field, lookout towers, a on a lake or high mountain meadow in my backpack tent
Favorite Animals
The bison is my totem.