Relationship
Domestic partnership. Interested in meeting people for networking
Hometown
Philadelphia, PA
Places I've been
North Dakota, Kentucky, Japan (Yokohama & Kobe), LA, San Diego, Washinton State, Oregon, New Jersey (various locales), Ireland and back to Philly and now NYC.
Military
  • Navy - 1961 to 1966
    Division: "gator Navy"
More about me

see also: http://xquills.blogspot.com

 

Activities
Movies, books, conversation, walks, writing, doing what passes for thinking while otherwise engaged in that other stuff.
Favorite Charities
Spent a number of years with an art gallery that conducted art auctions as fund raising events and thus was exposed to a great many very worthwhile groups.
Favorite Music
Wrote a blog that touched on this subject; feel free to comment.
Favorite TV Shows
Have collected hundreds of movies; an activity which has reached a point where there are more that I haven't seen than that I have. On the negative side, do not watch any so-called "reality" tv. On a positive note, there are at least twol good SciFi nights out of the week (this being Friday, it is one of those now).
Favorite Movies
See above but still have the first VHS movie I bought way back in the day before there were rentals and just re-watched it recently: "A Man for all Seasons". My number one daughter has another of those "oldies" (the second movie purchased) a tape of a Snow White stage show (Broadway) that Disney pulled off the market years ago.
Favorite Books
At any given moment, will be part way into at least three or four books. At the moment that would include "The Art of the Personal Essay", Pinker's "The Language Instinct", Donaldson's "Forbidden Knowledge", Anthony's "Ghost". Hum, seems like things are slipping away. Next up: Harold Bloom's "Where Shall Wisdom be Found" (a quick scan through may leave this on the side for more than a while). Re-reading Clavell and Gibbon; recommend "Rashomon:and Other Stories" by Akutagawa and there are always more than a few SciFi books around. & there are almost 50 "sample" chapters awaiting review on my Kindle along with half a dozen or so paper books on the shelf. Oh well....
Favorite Quotes
"Say not that you have found the truth; say only that you have found a truth." (Gibron) "It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing." - Gertrude Stein "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma....In the afternoon-well, I put it back again." - Oscar Wilde
Favorite People
Judith (30), Kira(27), Jr.(23) and Mike(20) - my four kids. Forgetting someone....oh right, Eva - my most significant other.
Favorite Places
Wouldn't mind going back to Ireland; lots of horses and writers don't pay income taxes (the last I heard).
Favorite Animals
Dogs, of course; and horses - but they're too hard to house break.