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Relationship

Domestic partnership. Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking

Hometown

Antioch, Calif

Places I've been

In the early 70's I lived in Honolulu on Oahu as well as Poipu Beach and Lihue on Kauai (the Garden Isle) in Hawaii for a couple of years and loved it! I visited Tokyo, and Kyoto, Japan and found the culture very interesting, but a bit obscure if you know what I mean :-). Bangkok, Thailand was wild! As frenetic and kinetic as one can imagine with the most wonderful pockets of traditional stillness hidden throughout. If you can't buy it there it can't be bought! Then came the traditional Island hops... Samoa, Fiji, the Spice Islands of Capt. Cook's final voyage, and finally Bali! Beautiful, beautiful Bali! If you come back from Bali the same person you were when you arrived then there is something desperately wrong with you!

Then I, being a bit more adventurous than most, departed the main shipping lanes and sampled some of the smaller, unknown South Pacific Islands where some few had never seen a white face before!

I was treated like a princess in many of those places!In others I dared not leave the safety of the boat! Now who knows? They are probably tourist traps with big name hotels and casinos!

Here on the mainland I've lived in many cities in CoCo County (as we natives call the "sideways Coast") as well as South Shore Lake Tahoe; Eyeful, Nevada; Reno, Nevada; St. Louis, Mo.; Leavenworth, Kansas; Oskaloosa, Kansas, and Memphis Tenn..

I must admit that of al the places I've lived in or visited, my favorites have all been West of the Rockies!

Education

• UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall), Law, anthropology - 1979 to 1981
• St. Mary's College, Liberal Arts (want fries with that?) - 1977 to 1979
• Los Medanos Junior College, Police Science then Art, then Gallery Mgt, etc. - 1975 to 1976
• Antioch Sr. High, Liberal Arts (want fries with that?) - 1968 to 1971
• Antioch Jr. High, Acne - 1966 to 1968
• About 750 or so elementary schools, Class Clown, Major Problem, General Disrupter. - 1958 to 1966

Military

• USCG - 1971 to 1974
  Division: SPAR
  Rank: E1-E4 to O3 (OCS)

More about me

I'm the mother of two beautiful daughters (living with their other parent) and one stepdaughter (raised by us) as well as one foster son and by way of him and grand son. I'm also the wife of one of the most wonderful women in the world! Other than our genders we live the traditional all American, suburban, empty nest, married couple life style. She is the working spouse and I'm the stay at home mom (I'm 100% disabled and retired). We have four "flying fur burgers" (cats) who are about as different from each other and one's normal idea of what a cat should be like as one can imagine!

I've tried my hand at a number of professions as well as a variety of jobs. While working my way through college on the GI Bill I worked as a grill cook, sous chef and finally as a Security Supervisor/Industrial Private Investigator. After just failing law school I found myself in the field of professional political fundraiser for progressive non-profits and liberal political cadidates. I found it rather ironic that I was always one of the bigger money makers while being the most conservative of my coworkers! Just proves that civil and human rights issues are neither right nor left wing issues... just human issues.

Activities

Surfing the web, posting at Eons and Friends with Pain, writting "slice of life" short stories and political OpEds

Favorite Charities

Marriage Equality USA, Marriage Equality California, EQCA.org

Favorite Music

Classic rock; Stones, Zepplin, Quicksilver, Meatloaf, Black Sabbath. Jazz Rock Fusion, Acid Jazz Fusion, Classics especially Bach & Bethoven, Vivaldi and the 18th Century Russians.

Favorite TV Shows

Law & Order (all of them), CSI: All of Them, Supernatural, Ghost Wisperer, Heroes

Favorite Movies

Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman series (60 movies), all the Kirosawa/Tashiro Mafuni movies, in fact just about any high end Samurai movie, Pirates of the Carribean series, Being There, Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; Better than Chocolate, Hours, too many others to list!

Favorite Books

All of Robt. Hienliens work, anything by Phillip Jose Farmer, Issac Asimov's SciFi AND his science textbooks, Ray Bradbury's work, Spider Robinson's work,

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