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Relationship

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

Hometown

Belleville, Illinois

Places I've been

My first home was in E. St. Louis, IL, when my parents and I lived in my grandma's house. She was my dad's mom, he was the youngest of her six children. My dad and his family had immigrated to this country from Spain. This was the family home. At the age of nine, my parents and I moved to Belleville, IL, where I stayed until HS graduation. From there, I lived in Wilmore, KY, for only a few months. Most of my adult life was spent in St. Louis, MO. My son and I lived in Columbia, MO for about ten years. And then my midlife crisis took me to upstate NY; the Berkshires in MA; Lowell, MA; then to San Francisco. My first stop here was in The Mission where I shared an apartment with about six other people. After that, I had a nice place up on Twin Peaks, and now I'm near Berkeley. Homesick now, after so many years away, so I'm thinking about putting on my traveling shoes, and going back "home" to St. Louis. I think it's the River that's calling me back home, the Mighty Mississippi. Of course, leaving SF will be sad. There's something to that song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". I love it here, I really do, I just cannot afford it. I have had the good fortune of traveling around the continental US in my youth, and have been Hawaii. South Dakota was a favorite of mine. Autumn in Maine took my breath away. You don't know what a snow storm really is unless you've spent a winter near Buffalo, NY. Nearly died of heat exhaustion and sun poisoning in Miami (sorry, sweet cousin, Kirk). And camping in Minnesota is awesome, especially when you wake up in the morning to find a moose outside your tent!

Education

• Belleville Township High School West, "The Stadium Club" - 1973 to 1976
• Asbury College, Wilmore, KY, Escaping! It was a religious school. - 1976 to 1977
• Belleville Area College, Associate of Arts - 1977 to 1979
• The School of LIFE!!!!!!, Me; me, the mother; me, the daughter; me, a friend - 1958 to 2008

Work

• UCSF Medical Center, Medical Transcriptionist - 2006 to 2008

More about me

to be continued ....

Favorite Charities

American Cancer Society, Humane Society, Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic in Oakland, CA.

Activities

Lately I've been enjoying Bikram Yoga. Everyday I walk, and am lucky to work on Pier 38 on the San Francisco Bay. Basically, I'm a homebody, though. I'm an artist at heart, and am always making things. I love to sew. I love to listen to music, and even make music sometimes.

Favorite Music

My favorite artist is John Lennon. My favorite band is Pink Floyd. I love acoustic guitar. I also love metal. Green Day, Chili Peppers, Radiohead, and Nirvana are on my list of faves. Folk music is great ... Love Emmylou. Johnny Cash? ... May he RIP. I love classic rock, the Dead, the Stones, Janis and Jimi. Jethro Tull -- Locomotive Breath -- Awesome stuff! Leslie West and Mountain -- Mississippi Queen -- Now that's rock-n-roll! Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Clapton? Gods! It would be nothing less than a tragedy for me to be stuck on a deserted island without The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Get me drunk and stoned enough, then ask me to do my best Diana Ross ... Some Day, We'll Be Together ... Yes we will, yes we will. *shaking my money maker* *wink*

Favorite TV Shows

Weeds, Deadwood, Arrested Development, Dr. Who. I enjoy watching craft shows, documentaries, The Animal Planet, The History Channel. Also love the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the Colbert Report.

Favorite Movies

Edward Scissorhands is at the top of my list. So is To Kill a Mockingbird. I love The Fight Club. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest makes my list, and so does Tombstone. Nine To Five makes me laugh hysterically to this day. I enjoy all kinds of movies except the typical "chick flick" sort of thing. Edward Norton in Primal Fear was just insane! Antonio Banderas is yummy yummy yummy nice to look at ... I don't know much about his movies. And that brings me full circle back to Edward Scissorhands. Johnny Depp was just so good in that movie ... He WAS Edward! Loved it.

Favorite Books

The kind with pretty pictures and "pop-up" pages. But my all time favorite book, I think ... Is probably a book I had when I was a little kid. It was one of those Little Golden Books, it's name, "A Present for the Princess". It was about a little blind boy and a princess who was coming to visit. He wanted to give her a present ... A strawberry ... So he asked Mother Nature to help him grow a big, beautiful, red, sweet, juicy strawberry. Together, the blind boy, the sun, birds, bees, and the rain ... Grew the best strawberry, and the princess loved his gift the most. I think this is when and how I developed my interest in witchcraft and my love of nature ... and strawberries!

Favorite Quotes

And forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the Winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. ~Kahlil Gibran
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. ~Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. ~John Lennon
The blues had a baby, and named it rock-n-roll. ~Muddy Waters

Favorite People

My son, of course, and my friends. My cousin, Kirk, has been the love of my life for as long as I can remember. Tomcat, the dirty rat, I still love him to pieces. My uncle Jack, everybody loved him. And my dad.

Favorite Places

Lately I've been reminiscing about Hawn State Park in Missouri. I have great memories of camping there with my son. San Francisco, of course, my heart will definitely be left here. St. Louis will always be "home".

Favorite Animals

I love all critters. Pets have always been a part of my life. Cats are my favorite. I have three. I love dogs, too. I've had birds, finches, they were lots of fun. And I've been a collector of betta fish. But I guess, if I could BE any animal I wanted to be, I'd choose to be a platypus, 'cus their weird little creatures, and so am I.

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