I love conversation. I love nights out with friends where we talk and talk and suddenly three hours have gone by. I love learning new things about people, and exploring the funny and serious sides of any situation. Also love: classic movies and TV shows; jazz and classical music; cooking together; eating out together.

I manage a storytelling outreach program; I'm also an instructor with the program. We bring workshops to schools and community centers where we teach and encourage people to tell stories from their lives. I love my work.

seeing all sides of a situation.

I'm a good listener. Also I'm pretty intense about things I care about. And I LOVE to laugh, and to find the humor in anything.

Favorite movies: Rear Window; Moonstruck; The Best Years Of Our Lives. Favorite music: jazz piano, violin, guitar, vocals; also cabaret artists like Bobby Short. Favorite TV shows: I Love Lucy; Everybody Loves Raymond; many British shows (As Time Goes By, New Tricks, Foyle's War). Favorite books are mostly nonfiction: Out Of Our Minds by Ken Robinson; Life: The Movie by Neil Gabler. Favorite foods are really all kinds; comfort-food is surely Italian.

The love of my friends; yogurt; working out; work I love; laughter; learning.

what needs improving, and how to make it better. Also getting better at appreciating what's good!

meeting friends for drinks/dinner, or sitting happily on the couch, eating popcorn and watching something great on TV.

I cry during romantic movies -- and even some TV commercials.

you're interested in meeting, or at least open to it. Wherever we go together, and however far (as they said in the pop song): I'd like to get to know you.