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Relationship

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

Hometown

I was born in Duluth, Minnesota, but was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I raised my family in Joliet, Illinois, and lived the last 10 years or so in LaPorte, Indiana. Now I reside in Stafford, Virginia.

Places I've been

High School Name (City, State) Pulaski High...Milwaukee, Wis. College Name I attended the University of Wisconsin, Milw. campus, but never got a degree. Occupation(s) I've been everything from a bartender and truckstop waitress to a purchasing agent for a oem manufacturing company. I've seen 38 out of 50 of our States, but the best by far (so far) are Washington State, and North Carolina. Have a strong desire to go up the East Coast before my time is thru. I've always wanted to have a lobster dinner on the coast of Maine. Also planning on cruising Alaska.

Education

• Pulaski High School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - 1960 to 1963

More about me

I'm divorced, 65 yrs old, sharing a home with my son in Virginia. I have four kids, five grandkids, and 4 great grandkids. I am interested in music, art, history, archeology, crafts, and the outdoors.....particularly beaches and mountains.  I am an avid reader; everything from murder mysteries to psychology books to biographies to Tom Clancy spy novels. 

I am a baseball fan, especially the Cubs, and I love football (Bears, Packers, Colts, Redskins).  I'm a crossword puzzle fan, as well as Sudoku.  I enjoy crafts....painting, needlework, making something out of nothing.  Cooking is one of my favorite things to do.  My specialities are Italian and good, old-fashioned Mid-western comfort food, although I am dabbling in Indian and Asian foods as well.

I am an avid animal lover....especially dogs.  I am currently owned by a rescue dog named Rocky.  I try to support animal charities like the ASPCA and Doris Day's Animal Fund. 

I love road trips.  Anywhere.  I love to take off with no particular destination in mind.....pick a road, and see where it takes me.  I'm quite a photography bug, too, and have taken some suitable for framing.  I'm especially crazy about roads that take me into mountains or along coastlines.   

I have spent a good portion of my life living for my family.  It's now time to live for me.  I'm embarking on a whole new journey, learning as I go, to make my remaining years as full and rich as possible.  I'm opening myself up to new ideas, new people, new experiences.  I don't wish to ever stop growing and improving.   

  

Favorite Movies

Independence Day Pirates of the Carribbean (the first & the fourth) The Hunt for Red Oktober The King's Speech True Grit The Bourne movies Sherlock Holmes (both) Ironman (Both) All seven Harry Potter movies

Favorite Music

Old time rock n roll, Country, classic rock, jazz, blues, Broadway, chorale, classical....just about anything but rap.

Favorite Books

Harry Potter 1-7, The Greatest Generation, 1968 - The Year that Rocked the World, Conversations with God, most James Patterson novels, anything Jonathan Kellerman, the Jack Ryan series of Tom Clancy books.

Favorite Quotes

"It's not the men in your life; it's the life in your men!" Mae West "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." JFK

Favorite People

My kids, my two best friends, Darlene and Jonell, my granddaughters, my great grandkids, Betty White, my father, Tom Brokaw, in no particular order.

Favorite Charities

USO, Toys for Tots, Wounded Warriors, ASPCA

Activities

Reading, traveling, exploring museums, sketching, learning new things, dancing, singing, swimming, cooking, watching a good game....be it football, baseball, hockey or basketball.

Favorite Places

The Washington State coastline, Mackinac Island, Monterey Bay, Chicago, North Carolina's coastline, the North Shore Drive on Lake Superior, New York City, the rolling green hills of historical Virginia.... and home, in the good ol' Midwest

Favorite Animals

Tigers, horses, dogs, koala bears, Pandas, deer and birds

Favorite TV Shows

CSI, NCIS, Bones, Criminal Minds, Body of Proof, Castle, The Mentalist, The Deadliest Catch, Grimm, and Dancing with the Stars

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