brainylainy's profile

I retired in June 2008 after working since I was 14.  Since, even before that, I always had housework and other chores to do -- I started washing the dinner dishes when I was 5 -- it has been quite a change to be able to call time as my own.  Since retiring, I've catalogued my book and movies collections, organized all my files, have started scanning all the family pictures into my computer,  made a cookbook for my children with all their favorite recipes, built a family history website, and launched a consulting business to use all the insights, knowledge, and skills gained in the past 43 years studying how people interact. I am not bored.  Boredom is not an option in my life.

I have been happily married for almost 50  years, to Bill, and have 3 grown sons and 5 grandchildren, one of whom we adopted and raised, our daughter Rebecca, who just finished up her degree requirements and is braving the art scene in San Francisco.  It's quite a change, not having a child at home.

I garden (flowers), read a lot, watch movies, shmoooze with friends, and bake a lot.  I love dogs -- actually all animals, but especially dogs, and have 2 Maltese.  They are real characters.  I am also a Lincoln buff and a Civil War one, naturally. They go together.  I am also a writer, and, as a departure from my scholarly works, I have just completed a novel, which is in press.  I love to meet people and find out about them, their histories, their likes, their interests.   

The only things I never discuss is the validity of any religious beliefs or partisan politics, unless I know the person really well. I do not like discord.  I am very liberal in politics, but have conservative friends, and I believe in the religion I was raised in, although not so literally as when I was younger. I have friends of all religions, incuding Muslims.