Relationship
Married. Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking
Hometown
Playa del Rey, CA
Places I've been
El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Irvine, Hermosa Beach, Marina del Rey, Newport Beach, Naples Island Long Beach, San Diego - all homes in CA. Latest - 11 years in Marion,MA (on Buzzard's Bay near Bourne Bridge onto Cape Cod). NOW - back to San Diego since Oct. '08.
More about me
Hi - I am an empty-nester with two boys in college in Boston & DC.  My husband Joe & I just returned to San Diego after 11 years in SE MA.  I am a life-long So. Cal beach person and am happy to be back, though I miss my east coast friends & family.  Looking for active, positive friends.  Feel like I'm still in my 30's.  Rock on.
Activities
Environment & animal volunteering. Reading. Hiking. Golf, tennis, boogie-boarding, sketching & painting.
Favorite Charities
Environmental Defense, Heifer International, Humane Society/
Favorite Music
70's rock & Broadway musicals.
Favorite TV Shows
The #1 Ladies Detective Agency, Lie to Me, The Mentalist, Chuck, Castle, Life, Bill Maher, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Smallville, The Dog Whisperer (also Amer. Idol when they're down to last 12.) Oh - OK - Desperate Housewives, too.
Favorite Movies
Big, Slumdog Millionaire, My Cousin Vinnie, Out of Africa, Sleepless in Seattle/You've Got Mail, anything Hugh Grant, Chicago, I Am Sam, ...
Favorite Books
Guns, Germs & Steel; McCall Smith's Botswana series, J.A. Jance Ariz. series, all Barbara Kingsolver, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime, The Glass Castle, most Grisham & Baldacci, Three Cups of Tea. I am reading all the time.
Favorite Quotes
"Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere." "Housework is like stringing beads with no knot at the end."
Favorite People
Michelle and Barack Obama, Al Gore, Cesar Milan, Bill Maher, George Stephanopolous, Ellen Goodman, Alexander McCall Smith, Evan Thomas, Fareed Zakaria, Paul Krugman & Ellen DeGeneris - and my husband & sons.
Favorite Places
Maui, Steamboat Springs & Rockies, Hwy 1 from S.F. to L.A., St. Kitts, Virgin Islands, Oregon, the Sierras, Yellowstone & Yosemite. And - home: the So. Cal. beach towns.
Favorite Animals
Dogs, cats, primates (SD Zoo one of my favorite places) and everything else. I hurt nothing that isn't going to hurt me & won't eat animals raised & killed inhumanely.