Relationship

Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking

Hometown

East Texas, where Hades doesn't hold a candle..

Places I've been

Most of the USA and to Cancun, Mexico, once.

Education

• SFA, English, history - 1962 to 1966

Work

• Texas schools, teacher - 1966 to 2003

Activities

Breathing, laughing, appreciating the spiritual side of life, cleaning(NOT), writing, editing, reading, petting my 3 dogs and 1 (wild) cat, being with the grans (kids, ) being with the wisest of all women, my remarkable mother--and all the rest of the kin folks and my friends; Eating is a great favorite of mine

Favorite Charities

People who cherish all life (well, maybe scorpions and snakes don't top my list) But good-hearted folks are represented in all charities, and I admire them all.

Favorite Music

I started out with CW as my fave, moved on to pops, and now love classical (hmm... Regression?)

Favorite TV Shows

HGTV, (Home and Garden) Old movies, BBC-America, A&E, CNN, MSNBS, Fox News, local channels news, History TV channels, Science channel, Biography, TCM, AMC, and probably more that I can't think of

Favorite Movies

What Dreams May Come; GWTW; Shrek 1, 2, 3; The old Disney animated classics; O Brother Where Art Thou, My Cousin Vinny, Ingrid Bergman in anything--ditto Cary Grant; Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, comedies; Robin Williams movies; Brother Where Art Thou; Blazing Saddles; My Cousin Vinnie;

Favorite Books

Bible; writings of Mary Baker Eddy; Shakespeare; Robert Louis Stevenson; the Brontes; Jane Austin; John Steinbeck; Thomas Hardy; Mark Twain; JRR Tolkein; Grims Fairy Tales; anything set in the High Middle Ages; Ancient history; Dark Ages; Let's face it--all history! Alcott; Cadfael mysteries; Sherlock Holmes, War and Peace; anything by Agatha Christie, esp Poirot; Zora Hurston; Alvin Toffler; Albert Einstein's memories; Stephen Hawking; H.G. Wells; L.Frank Baum's Oz stories; J.Frank Dobie's stories, Ring Lardner's tales; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Robert Ludlum; Antonia Fraser; Lewis Carroll; Kipling; William Saroyan's stories; David Halberstam; William Safire; William Manchester; Bambi; The Yearling; Colleen McCullough; Alice Walker; Nicholas Sparks; Pat Conroy; Houston Heat by Jaye Wilson;

Favorite Quotes

God is Love; He that loveth not knoweth not God; There is nothing in this world but thinking makes it so;

Favorite People

All the Good Guys in the Bible, especially Jesus; My Mom, my kids and grandkids; Abe Lincoln; George Washington; all the Revolutionary War heroes and the founders of the United States; All the U.S. Amed Forces today, doing their duty no matter what the risk; Teddy and FDR; Ghandi; Eisenhower; Omar Bradley; George Marshall; Nelson Mandela; Barbara Walters; Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan; Lou Dobbs;

Favorite Places

Home! And most everywhere else, (with major exceptions like Afghanistan, Iraq, Earth's Moon, and Mars);

Favorite Animals

Cats, big and little, wild and tame; dogs; all mammals, really, (Maybe not rats--except squirrels); lizards (that don't bite); birds of all kinds, (which is why my cat is an indoor critter); a few insects (butterflies).

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