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Relationship

Single. Interested in meeting men for dating and meeting men for a serious relationship and meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking

Hometown

San Francisco Bay Area (CCCounty)

Places I've been

Lafayette, CA, (where I grew up in the 50's and 60's), Chico, CA, (where I went to college and ended up living for 10 years), Quincy, CA, (a beautiful mountain town where I worked as an Itinerant Speech-Language Pathologist), McCloud, CA, (where I lived for 30 years, got married, raised 2 beautiful children, and worked at the local elementary school), Kona, HI, (made several trips here over the last 30 years as my sister lives there) Washington D.C, (several teachers and I took a group of elementary school children here and spent one of the most exciting weeks of our lives), Walnut Creek, CA (now single, just moved back here last year after living in the mountains for 30 years)

Education

• California State University - Chico, Speech Pathology & Audiology - 1975 to 1977

Work

• Lafayette School Dist. (Currently Employed), Special Education ParaEducator - 2008 to 2009
• Acalanes School Dist. (Currently Employed), High School Library Asst. - 2009 to 2009
• Lindamood-Bell Learning Center, Clinician - 2006 to 2006
• McCloud Elementary School, Special Education ParaEducator / Librarian - 1992 to 2008

More about me

I am a down-to-earth, outgoing and fun  50+ gal that recently moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area (Contra Costa County) after living up in the mountains for over 30 years.  I am a very passionate person and love connecting with people.  I love to laugh and am constantly learning new things. Basically, I have always embraced life with enthusiasm.

Activities

listening to music, reading, walking/hiking, yoga, wine, movies, connecting with people, learning new things

Favorite Charities

St. Judes, Help Hospitalized Veterans and like to get involved with local charities in my county

Favorite Music

smooth jazz, classical, blues, the standards, folk, and '60's rock'n'roll

Favorite TV Shows

Grey's Anatomy (I rarely watch TV)

Favorite Movies

Life is Beautiful, It's a Wonderful Life, Forrest Gump, Love Actually, Something's Got to Give, You've Got Mail, The Notebook, Return to Me, Big, Pretty Woman, As Good as it Gets, Mrs. Doubtfire, Dances w/ Wolves, Fried Green Tomatoes, Meet Joe Black, Grumpy Old Men (I, II), Guess Whose Coming to Dinner?

Favorite Books

Grapes of Wrath, all Richard Evans' books, Tuesday with Morrie, Where the Heart Is, The Notebook, Smoke Jumper, Fried Green Tomatoes, Secret Life of Bees, The Giver, Gone w/the Wind, A Stranger for Christmas, The Color Purple, Another Country, Stranger in a Strange Land, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion

Favorite Quotes

"Never, Never, Never Give Up" (Churchill), "Shoot for the Moon, even if you Miss, you'll land among the stars" (Brown), "Hold Fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly" (Hughes), "Age is a number not a condition" (Unknown), "What would you do if you could not fail?" (Unknown), "Be a rainbow in someone's cloud" (Angelou)

Favorite People

Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Mother Theresa, Rosa Parks, Willie Mays, Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn

Favorite Places

The ocean, Anywhere in San Francisco, Washington D.C., Kona, HI

Favorite Animals

dogs (labs, English bulldogs, boxers, German shepherds), rabbits (miniature)

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