When we're good to each other, we create a warm, safe refuge in a confusing and challenging world. If you agree, and you're anintelligentand sincere man, please drop me a line or two and let's see what we can make happen!
These days, my goal is to be content and confident, and to have a simple, comfortable, relativelydrama-freelife. I'm always working on my faults and flaws. With others I strive to be kind, honest, compassionate, supportive, fair and thoughtful.

I'm busywritingmagazine articles, trying to write fiction, enjoying many kinds ofmusic,making things with yarn, reading a lot ofhistoryandscience,watching and readingcomedyand learning how tobelly dance.

Empathy, solving problems, improvising, comforting, questioning, and laughing.

Most have pointed out my smile and my speaking voice -- a warm contralto that floats from soothing to authoritative and back again.

Hoo, boy. Where to begin? Where to end? Well... acoustic guitar, Alfre Woodard, almonds, Angela Bassett, Angelique Kidjo, apple pie a la mode,Ben & Jerry's(and please don't ask me to pick a favorite flavor!), Ben Harper, Ben Stiller, “Body of Proof,”biographies,cashews, "The Cleveland Show,” "The Colbert Report,” curried anything,documentaries,"Ed Wood," Eldar Djangirov, ginger, "How it's Made,” hummus, Jhumpa Lahiri, Judith Owen, Junot Diaz, kale, Kathy Griffin, the "Law and Order" franchise, "Le Show," Ludovico Einaudi, Margaret Cho, "Medium,”Michael Franti,"NOVA,” Octavia Butler, On Beauty, “The Paper,” peanut butter cookies,Peter Gabriel,piano (classical, jazz and New Age), potatoes, “Quantum Leap,” red bell peppers, Regina Carter, Robin Williams, Rodrigo Garcia, salmon, “Saturday Night Live,” Seal, Sisters of the Yam, “Studio 360,” sushi, superheroes, time travel,tofu(yes, tofu), trivia, violin, "This American Life,” "Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!" Wanda Sykes, Weird Al Yankovic, "The World," and many, many more...

Words
Hope
Humor
Choices
Challenges
Peace of mind

my next moves in life; food;trivia;jokes and other funny stuff;journalism;music; self-improvement; stories I hear onNPR

in front of a screen of one type or another, alone or with others, at home or elsewhere, watching something hilarious and/or thought-provoking, with a ball of yarn and a crochet hook in my hands if I can get away with it.

On the internet, this is all you're getting: I read advice columns for fun. I also fantasize about being the subject of a documentary with everybody I know sitting in a movie theater watching it.

- You want to meet a woman who is smart, tough, mature, funny and not at all perfect.
- You expect and demand to be treated with respect, kindness and fairness because that's how you treat others
- Reading this profile has made youthinkand/orlaughout loud