I am a good listener, observer, reader and thinker; quiet and reserved until tampered with. I am interested in a great many things and love to indulge in imaginative thought and visualization. I have an inate capacity to remember faces, voices, mannerisms, stories and history. I have developed the capacity to compartmentalize; I can focus on the work/subject at hand, yet another part of my brain is whirring and clicking away on some topic that has nothing to do with it. Quality conversation and humor and passion rate highly with me, somewhat more than food or sleep or doing the dishes.

Hurtling through it, apparently; I always seem to have some project or demand coming fast! Self-employment has that effect!

writing, gardening, staying healthy, fit and good-humored. I have surfed for over fifty years but age is eroding my ability, although I still have my moments on the water. My response is to try harder!

I think this varies from person to person. When people get to know me, my impression is that I am perceived as rugged but articulate and somewhat surprising in thought and action.

Any work by Dickens, Melville, Twain, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Homer, Shakespeare, Kipling, Marlowe, Chaucer, O'hara, O.Henry, Oconnor, Portis, Potok, Pynchon, Gardner(Grendel, October Light, The Sunlight Dialogues), early McMurtry, Doctorow, Sarah Vowell, Norman McLean, Sedaris, Elizabeth Kolbert, Richard Leakey, Zechariah Sitchin, Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, Issac B. Singer, Chaim Potok, Phillip K. Dick, R Heinlen and many others. Unforgiven, Little Big Man, Elmer Gantry, Blade Runner, La Strada, Zabriskie Point, The African Queen, Atlantic City, China Town, House of the Seven Gables, A Night at the Opera, The Sand Pebbles, The Time Bandits, A River Runs Through It, From Here to Eternity, Local Hero, The Last Picture Show, Spartacus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Fourth Kind, all Woody Allen and Clint Eastwood films beginning with Unforgiven, and many others. Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Billy Joel, Jackson Browne, Lead Belly, Beethoven, Mark Noffler, Leo Kotke, Greg Brown, Johnny Cash, Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Bette Midler, Maria Maldaur, Pearl Bailey, Patsy Cline, Tina Turner, Dvorak, Mozart and many, many more. More later...

The ocean, its waves, how it looks in the morning, how it looks in the evening, the salty air, the roar of breaking waves.
Music of all kinds, especially classic, ethnic, rhythm and blues, new age and rock.
My children and grandchildren.
My farm.
My business.
My friends.

The world, my completed novel, the sequel I'm working on, stories I have not written yet, poems I have not written yet, the environment, current politics, retirement plans, and if I'm ever going to meet and instantly recognize, just as she recognizes at the same instant, that we are the love of our lives.

completely worn out from the hurly-burly of the work-week and ready for anything! Actually, I have no typical nights!

I have a great deal of room for improvement.

you find me interesting, you think outside the box and are unafraid of and actually crave fascinating conversation.