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Relationship

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

Hometown

San Francisco, California

Places I've been

I have lived in New York---Manhattan, Brookyn, and currently the Bronx, for 37 years, so while I am not a native New Yorker, I am a citzen. Grew up in California; left at 17 for college. Besides New York, I have lived in LA (as an adult for 1 year), Chicago, Denver, Boscobel, Wisconsin, and a small village in Italy (Liguria).

Education

• Antioch College (now defunct), Literature - 1960 to 1965

Military

• - 1963 to 1978
  Rank: Opted out of Vietnam War

More about me

I live in a sprawling loft in the South Bronx otherwise known as SoBro, or historically as Mott Haven. From here I operate an independent book producing company, specializing in high-quality illustrated natural history books. My wife (and business partner) of 28 years died four years ago. As anyone who has experienced this kind of loss knows, it is not something that you can plan for. The grieving came in waves, which in the beginning at times literally knocked me off my feet. With time the intense grieving has receded, and recently I found myself feeling that I was beginning to have a life again. I am writing a book---my third large scale writing project---entitled THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY. It’s about forgiveness or unforgiveness. I think it contains the best writing I have ever done, so we shall see. Although born and raised in California, I have lived in New York for over half my life---mostly Manhattan, but also Brooklyn and for the last 9 months the Bronx.

 

Besides writing, I like to read, go dancing (zydeco and West Coast Swing), hike, hear live jazz, canoe, backpack with my brothers in the Sierras every fall, visit the museums and art galleries in the city, and wander the streets of New York sucking up the amazing energy this city emits day and night.

   

I enjoy my life in the city and am increasingly dedicated to writing my book, which currently runs to 26,000 words, with, say another 20,000 words to go. It will be over when it is over. Then I have two more I want to write…I tell myself at age 65, I better get busy.

Activities

Listening to live jazz, camping, swimming, backpacking, reading, canoeing, mountaineering, visiting museums, eating out, hiking, dancing, living in New York, writing,

Favorite Charities

MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)

Favorite Music

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Don Cherry, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Chet Baker, Van Morrison, the Beatles, Otis Redding, Patsy Kline, Bob Marley, Pat Metheny, Philip Glass, Charles Ives, Clarence Blanchard

Favorite TV Shows

I don’t have a working TV. When I have a chance, I watch with my friends PBS’s Mystery.

Favorite Movies

The Third Man; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Casablanca; Breathless; L'Atalante; Wizard of Oz; Force of Evil; Blade Runner; The Misfits; Faces; 2001; Saturday Night Fever; Them!; To Live and Die in L.A.; Treasure Island; The Passion of Joan of Arc; The Gospel According to St. Matthew; Hannah and Her Sisters; Time Bandits; Tales of Hoffman; Wild Strawberries; Lone Star; Morocco; Shadows; The Last Days of Disco; Laura; In a Lonely Place; The Last Picture Show; Bullit; Gas Food Lodging; The Fugitive Kind; Moonstruck; Stand By Me; My Own Private Idaho; The Breakfast Club; Seconds; Rocket Ship X-M; I Want To Live; The Mole People; Red Shoes; Prizzi’s Honor; The Dead; The Life of Oharu; Night of the Hunter; Murder, My Sweet; La Notte; Zéro de conduite; The Late Show; Goodfellas; Four Faces West

Favorite Books

The Jade Mountain, Witter Bynner (ed.); Lady in the Lake, Raymond Chandler; The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childer; Victory, Joseph Conrad; The Origin of Species/The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin; Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky; Studs Lonigan, James Farrell; Pan, Knut Hamsun; The Histories, Herodotus; Mr. Ripley (series), Patricia Highsmith; Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg; The Castle, Franz Kafka; Children of Violence (series), Doris Lessing; Balkan Trilogy, Olivia Manning; Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche; Star Man Son, Andre Norton; Tales, Edgar Allen Poe; Trouble Sleep, Jean-Paul Sartre; Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo; March to Caobaland, B. Traven; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain; Precious Bane, Mary Webb; The Persian Expedition, Xenophon

Favorite Quotes

“Life is neither good nor bad; it’s original.” —The Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo “Even the butterfly must earn its keep.” —Issa "...the responsibilities of consciousness...." —Edward Albee

Favorite People

My dear brothers, David and Robert; my daughter, Simone; my grandson, Jacob; my granddaughter, Violet; my son-in-law, Tim; my cousin, Betty; my friends Bruce, Sylvia, Richard, Jack, Maryann, Peter, Diane, John, Barbara, Lenore, Helene, Lori, and especially Maureen.

Favorite Places

Fifth Lake, Big Pine Basin, Sierra Nevada, California; Southwest Wisconsin; Baltic Coast, Finland; Diver’s Cove, Laguna Beach, California; Cochise Stronghold, Arizona; Otter Creek, West Virginia: Yucatan, Mexico; North Fork, East End, Long Island; Airole, Italy; Norwegian Alps; New York City

Favorite Animals

I guess I am a cat person. I like most animals, including insects, fish, and snails. I admit I am fascinated by snakes, but they do spook me out a bit. Saw outside of Tucson last year my first ever rattlesnake in the wild. Now there’s a scary animal.

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