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Relationship

Single. Interested in meeting people for friendship

Hometown

Birmingham, Alabama

Places I've been

I've driven across the US several times and found some wonderful places. My favorite may have been Madison, Wisconsin. My first time there, I was working as a manager for a sleazy telemarketing firm. I had no money, so lived in the YWCA. What a city!! One day it was all brown. The next morning, there were a thousand different colors of green with flowers everywhere. And groups of people sitting on the capitol building lawn - playing guitars and singing. It was near some of the greatest places I've ever seen - Taliesin, The House on the Rock, Baraboo, The Dells. I've been back as often as I could, but never enough. Other than that, I've lived in Alabama - Birmingham, Auburn, Mobile, Hartford; Texas - Houston, Galveston; Florida - Miami, Punta Gorda, Panama City; Georgia - Atlanta; Connecticut - New London; Panama Canal Zone, and probably other places that I've forgotten.

Education

• Auburn, University of Houston, BFA Art History, MBA ( didn't finish) - 1959 to 1985

More about me

My mother was a beautiful woman from the south who never quite fit the southern belle image.  My father was a pilot in France in WWII - the scion of a wealthy family.  The marriage kind of lasted until the end of the war, then he vanished. But, one of my first memories is driving across country to meet him - trying to sleep on the hump in the back seat floor.

At 18, I did what I thought was expected - went away to college and found a husband.  That lasted through 15 years and three children.  Then, I think my life began.

Some life changing events:  Returning to college at 30; The first time in my life that I spent a night alone at 35;  taking a travelling job at 40;  living with a much younger man at 45;  buying my first house at 50, losing it to a hurricane at 65; going back to work at 69 (doing something that I love);  and discovering Gingko Biloba, Glucosamine Sulfate and St. John's wort in the past few years.     

Activities

After I moved to my place in the woods, I began trying to start a garden. (I'd always had a good one before I moved here.) It hasn't gone very well, but this year, I'm gonna get it right. By August, I'll be eating my own organically grown veggies.

Favorite Charities

Humane Society and Salvation Army

Favorite Music

Just about any of it, but I rarely listen since I moved here. The sounds of nature and farm animals are so wonderful that I don't want to block them out. If I do put something on, it will be anything on the guitar, something classical, something by Miles Davis or Leonard Cohen or Nina Simone or Tom Waitts.

Favorite TV Shows

Don't need a TV. I have a computer (Well, I will when I get it fixed) books and the evening sky.

Favorite Movies

Recently, I've learned to appreciate that guy (senior moment) from Saturday Night Live who's making about twelve movies a year now. Stranger Than Fiction is a favorite. The Bourne movies are fun to watch. Anything with Tom Hanks or Reese Witherspoon. I like Indie films and romantic comedies and some issue movies. In My Country and The Constant Gardener were both terribly moving.

Favorite Books

Hard to say. I buy books at the library for ten cents apiece and read whatever I find. Anything on Oprah's list is good. John Le Carre, Toni Morrison, James Michener are favorites. Also like classical novels - those that we were supposed to read in school and got the crib notes instead. I just finished a modern novel about the stock market in early eighteenth century. Good book. Non-fiction can be great, too. Nothing too heavy - books on gardening or home repair. I've been reading a very interesting book on evolutionary psychology for a couple of years.

Favorite Quotes

You must first become a chaos if you would give birth to a dancing star.

Favorite People

The man who repairs my car. The man who repairs my computer. Of course, my family. My best friend John in Texas was never able to quit smoking. He died last October, but he's still there in my heart and brain. Public people? Maybe Oprah.

Favorite Places

The spring down in my woods. The area around Little River Canyon. All those places with ghosts - old forts, abandoned cities.

Favorite Animals

Booger is a little tabby girl who talks like a duck and has a great talent for snuggling. Sage came to live with me when my nephew went to Iraq and had to give her up. She was a gentle, shy girl, who lifted her leg to pee and humped every male dog that came near. Because she needed a companion, I found Gome. He's an absolutely lovable idiot. They're Border Collie, Australian Shepherd mixes. Can't remember how I lived without them. Recently a pair of the neighbor's chickens have moved to my yard. They spend the day eating bugs, making fertilizer and delighting me.

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