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Relationship

Single

Hometown

Kansas City, MO

Places I've been

Lived in: Lawrence, KS; Columbia, SC; Burke, VA; San Francisco Bay area; Seattle, WA; Bellingham, WA Visited: Ireland, London, Paris, Vienna, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver BC, Victoria BC, Bahamas, Ensenada MX

Education

• RUSKIN HIGH SCHOOL - 1965 to 1969
• William Woods College, Fulton, MO, Piano Performance - 1969 to 1970
• University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Math / History (part-time) - 1972 to 1973
• George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, History (part-time) - 1979 to 1980
• Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, B.Mus.: Conducting, Composition, Vocal Performance - 2003 to 2006
• Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, M.Mus: Music History and Literature - 2006 to 2009

More about me

I'm currently moderating the eons group Cooking and Shopping for One

I retired in 2003 from a 32-yr career in software development, and returned to college to complete the music degree I'd started in 1969, graduating in 2006 with B.A. in music. In the fall of 2006, I started graduate school, working toward a M.Mus. in Music History. I should graduate in June, 2009.

I'm having a ball! I'm generally upbeat, and love learning new things, especially history. I'm an excellent cook (or so my friends tell me), I'm active in my church, and I live every day in joyful expectation that I will have the opportunity make a difference in the world.

Favorite Movies

Citizen Kane, Joe vs. the Volcano, Strangers on a Train, A Letter to Three Wives, Singing in the Rain

Favorite TV Shows

Creature Comforts, As Time Goes By, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Most of the shows on Food Network and HGTV

Activities

Cooking, Reading, Crafts, School

Favorite Charities

Donors Choose, Kidney Foundation

Favorite Music

Benjamin Britten: War Requiem, Gustav Holst: The Cloud Messenger, Bach: Magnificat, Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem

Favorite Books

Anything by Erik Larson, Cookbooks

Favorite Places

Ireland (especially Galway and Connemara), Czech Republic (Brno), Iowa (the Amana colonies)

Favorite Animals

Cats, Dogs (smaller breeds, but not "yappy" neurotic ones), Moose

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