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Married. Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking

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I'm grandma to 2 wonderful boys; I'm extra-grandma to 2 other wonderful boyz; I'm married to the best guy in the world; my son and daughter-in-love are the best ever. I live in a fun, funky neighborhood with absolutely terrific neighbors (dogs and cats included). I'm a geeky interior decorator social organizer pancake making lover of fun. I read "junk" novels and don't watch war movies. Every once in a while I'll read or watch something serious or intellectual -- but only occasionally.  Shallow? Maybe. But I sure enjoy my life and have fun no matter what I'm doing. I wake up smiling every day.  Gak! I sound so boring!  Do I care?  Nope!

Favorite Movies

Some of my favorites: Raising Arizona, Start the Revolution without Me, The In-Laws, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, This is Spinal Tap, Animal House, The English Patient, Dances with Wolves, Amadeus, The Princess Bride, Big, Blade Runner, Tom Jones, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, A Christmas Story, The Sixth Sense, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Natural, Sophie’s Choice, The Devil Wears Prada, Easy Rider, The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri), Fargo, Cinderella, Snow White, Bambi

Favorite TV Shows

House MD, American Idol, The Wedding Bells, Chronicle (Boston's TV Magazine)

Activities

Swimming, reading, interior decorating, cooking and baking, gardening, travel and travel planning, music (BSO to AC/DC), girl scouts, boy scouts

Favorite Charities

NPR, Urban Medical, WBUR and WGBH Boston

Favorite Music

My songs: Slow Hand, Urgent, Stone in Love, Sweet Emotion, We Will Rock You, Rock On, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Night Moves, Still Crazy After All These Years, Lyin' Eyes, Take It to the Limit, Feel Like Makin Love, Sweet Home Alabama, Piano Man, My Maria, Killing Me Softly With His Song, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Me and Bobby McGee, One Toke Over the Line, Ohio, American Woman, After Midnight, Lola, Down on the Corner, The Dock of the Bay, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman, Brown Eyed Girl, Respect, I Feel Free, Unchained Melody, Mr. Tambourine Man, I Got You, Satisfaction, Sympathy for the Devil, Dancing in the Street, Louie, Louie, Da Doo Ron Ron, Crying, Runaway, Johnny B. Goode, Great Balls of Fire, Not Fade Away, Heartbreak Hotel

Favorite Books

All Quiet on the Western Front, War & Peace, All Creatures Great and Small, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Novels (about the Bounty Hunter in Trenton New Jersey), In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke and all his other Dave Robicheaux books, John Sandford's Prey novels, James Clavell's novels... especially Shogun, The Time Traveler's Wife, John LaCarre's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"

Favorite Quotes

"Laugh while you can... Monkey Boy!", "Wherever you go... there you are" both from the movie Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension,

Favorite People

My husband Bob, my son Ned, my sister Lila and her hubby Joe, my daughter-in-law Julie, my grandson Eli, my next door neighbor Mary, my substitue grandsons Miles and Lucas, my sister-in-law Claudia . . .

Favorite Places

Boston, Oaxaca, Vienna, Paris, Sydney, the Grand Canyon, northern Minnesota, Bocas del Torro in Panama, Bahias de Huatulco and Guanajuato in Mexico ...

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