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Relationship

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

Hometown

Atlanta, GA

Places I've been

Michigan, Canada, Mexico, FL, NV, IN, OK, IL, TN, NC, CA,TX, LA, AL, Mexico. I sound like Hank Snow. Born in IN, raised, married and lived in GA. Loved Brown Co., IN until we moved to GA. My dad always took us to MI and Canada for vacations. Blue Ridge, GA and the mountains of east TN/NC are favorite places.

Education

• Several schools and private instruction, Interior Design; Graphic Arts; Fine Arts; - 1970 to 1988
• St.Mary's U., St.Phillip's,, Art - 1970 to 1988

Work

• Hospitals, physicians, U.S. Army Med Ctr, Med Coder; Clinic mgr,Cardio Tech - 1967 to 1990

More about me

Quick synopsis:

Divorced. Short. Southern. Off the wall.

Reb to the bone though born in IN, transplanted to GA and TX, I claim REBELSHIP.

 

Always been an animal person-- horses, dogs, cats, raccoons, anything unless it slithers. Have 1 dog now and a psychic (and psycho) cat. Somehow, I ended up working in mediccal support for many years. However, I was a music and art major. Go figure.

 

Taurus personified: stubborn, outspoken, opinionated..and alas, lacking in tact . .. Taureans though  warm and caring, are rather blunt (I prefer HONEST), but  would not deliberately offend. anyone. Working with terminal patients was fulfilling. We had a 2-way need,  People fascinate me and I lose myself in their stories.

Briefly, I taught grade school and worked in education before I was drafted into medicine  through a temp part-time job. Although I admit to my childhood ambitions of being 1.) A nurse and 2.) A jockey.  When I was in school though the sex was wrong for #2 and  music and art got in the way of #1. 

 

Total belief and love in and for my country is inborn. I come from a long line of TN judges and lawmen.. America is not perfect, but it is still the BEST in the world, even at its worst.  Go live in one of the other foreign countries longer than a vacation and NOT as a tourist.  (And if you should LIKE it...please stay there!!!)  I was blessed to be born here.. I'm conservative and scared as hell, as we all should be, since it seems everybody else in the world envies what we have and has painted a bullseye on our backside. I believe we are our own worst enemy. - United we stand and divided, we most certainly will fall.....or as The Book says, " A house divided against itself cannot stand.". .

 

Eastern TN ancestry is Scot-Cherokee.. My dad's family were among the Jamestown settlers, immigrating from Scotland as indentured servants, guards at the settlement.. One reason maybe my family never owned slaves. From VA they went to SC>NC>TN,;  State boundaries moved around a bit in there over the years, so the people might not have moved as much as the states did in the young nation.

 

Art keeps me  acceptably sane.  I've painted Native American portraits for 40 years - before it was "cool" to paint Western Art. Watercolor pencil with ink is my preference,  but  also scupt in clay. I still sing, play the piano.  I'm a ham.

Activities

Painting-drawing, singing, playing piano, reading, writing, needlework, community theatre, clay sculpture, computer

Favorite Charities

Anything to protect abused children, women or animals, the St.Vincent de Paul Society and Good Will. I know that their donations go where they are supposed to go.

Favorite Music

Josh Groban, Kenny Rogers, Brooks and Dunn, etc., Broadway musicals (Phantom, Camelot, etc.) some opera, Rachmaninoff is my favorite classical composer, The Chieftains, Pavarotti, James Galway, Jerome Kern, The Eagles, John Denver, , The Bee Gees

Favorite TV Shows

Criminal Minds, NCIS, In Plain Sight, Saving Grace, Bonnie Hunt, CSI NY..English mysteries and comedy. I dislike sex and reality shows. If I want reality, I don't need to watch TV! Sometimes PBS, A&E and the History Channel have good documentaries..

Favorite Movies

Somewhere in Time (beautiful Rachmaninoff score! ); Song of the South; As Good As it Gets; The Lion in Winter; Beckett; Tombstone, The Uninvited; A Beautiful Mind; The Ghost & Mrs.Muir; The Song of Bernadette, Show Boat, The King & I, My Fair Lady, etc.

Favorite Books

GWTW, Foxes of Harrow, James Patterson's books.. good mysteries or historical books. No horror genre! The Lincoln Library; the Harvard Classics, Mr.Popper's Penguins - Uncle Remus!

Favorite Quotes

Will Rogers: "Never squat with your spurs on.", "Never slap a man who's chewin' tobacco." and "Don't drink downstream from the herd". Of course it's hard to beat Mark Twain's, "Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were in Congress..but I repeat myself."

Favorite People

About 5 of my 8 kids, which varies from time to time according to who has done what. Famous People: Pope John Paul XXIII; Will Rogers and Mark Twain; Teddy Roosevelt. My heroines would be Elizabeth Blackwell..the first woman to go to medical school in the 1800's. Can you imagine the challenges that she faced? #1 would be Sacajawea, the little Indian guide of Lewis and Clarke, undoubtedly. Just a young girl, so brave and we owe her so much. Eleanore Roosevelt, Laura Bush and Helen Keller are next. Add Kermit the frog. I know how it feels to be green.

Favorite Places

The mountains of eastern TN, NC and N.GA around Hiwassee. Love the beach at dawn just before the sun comes up and the tide is coming in, but not a sun/sand person. I BURN.

Favorite Animals

Horses, dogs, raccoons (..if you have them neutered and pets from birth!) Raccoons are so intelligent, it's scary. NO REPTILES. Two yrs ago, an abused kitten smaller than my hand, (Josie), moved in. Now she's larger than my dog. Out of loyalty to her, therefore I must include CAT. She turns somersaults, says "mamma" and is a peoplephobe.. Anyone comes in the house, she plays SplatCat against the closet wall. Strange cat but an excellent judge of character..my kids think I'm going round the bend and she's a figment. She vanishes if they come here.

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