I moved to Rocky River, from Boston, MA, in November, 2011, so i'm fairly new here in Ohio. I'm a good-natured person, welcoming each day whether it be a day of work or a day of play. I'm kind, compassionate, understanding, and intelligent. I'm also unconventional, especially in my approach to health and nutrition (I practice and use homeopathy and other "alternative" healing methods), and in my understanding of how things are run here in the US. I strive to live a healthy life by eating good food, doing good work, getting some exercise, and trying to focus on the positive things in life. I enjoy many activities, both outdoor and indoor: walking, hiking, biking, contradancing, movies, and museums, to name a few. I am definitely not your average woman, and those I get along with are usually off the mean in some way as well.

I very much enjoy my work at an integrative medicine center in a suburb of Cleveland. During my time off work I like relaxing around the house doing comforting domestic chores, and having fun experiences in outdoor settings. I'm usually up for one kind of adventure or another. I’m not much into TV, although I do watch movies at home.

I have a 28 year old son who lives and works on his own. He is a fine young man and we have a good relationship, for which I am grateful. I enjoy young adults and love children of all ages. I won’t be having more children of my own, but would welcome having my partner’s children (grandchildren, maybe?) in my life.

I would like to meet a man with whom I can share that special sense of joy and ease when we're together. What we do doesn’t matter as much as the fact that we’re together. It could be a walk, a talk, a shared meal, or something more exotic. I am ready to do my part as a loving, giving partner in a long term relationship, and I hope to find someone who will reciprocate. When I find that special man, he will be kind and generous, intelligent, a great communicator, passionate about his work and interests, and financially responsible. To summarize, he will be a mensch. Someone who doesn’t eat meat would be ideal.

I have a sensitivity to fragrances and chemicals, so dating someone fragrance-free is a must (I'm talking about personal care products, laundry products, and cleaning products).

work-wise: learning more about functional medicine so I can help people achieve better health through nutrition and targeted supplementation. I've been practicing homeopathy for over 25 years.

family-wise: helping my aging father with his transition years from this life to the afterlife. He lives in Florida in a "memory care unit."

creativity-wise: various crafty projects involving yarn and fabric.

exercise-wise: Walking, hiking, biking, and dancing

In no particular order... knitting, contradancing, driving, directions and navigating, organizing, designing ElfaShelf closets, running on time, envisioning how empty or poorly used space can be utilized, using good grammar, seeing the efficient way to do things. I'm very affectionate with those I care about.

Here's what I would notice:

above the neck: short haircut, big brown eyes

below the neck: normal weight for height

books: Cold Sassy Tree and Maybe the Moon are two of my favorite modern novels.

movies: oh, so many... I love for comedies of a certain sort: The Big Lebowski, Living in Oblivion, The Real Blonde, Election, The Wedding Singer, Slums of Beverly Hills, My Cousin Vinny, Shall We Dance (original Japanese version), 40-Year-Old Virgin, Sideways, Mean Girls, Sugartown, It's My Life. I also like The Woodsman, Shakespeare in Love, Blade Runner, To Kill a Mockingbird, Casablanca, Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete (with Philip Glass score), Black Orpheus, The Red Violin, and David Lynch's The Elephant Man, to name a few.

music: almost anything with a good groove: Bob Marley, Neville Brothers, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, various other funk, soul, and blues artists, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Marta Topferova, good bluegrass, some jazz, various kinds of world music, especially African. I love a good horn section. I also have a weakness for anything played by Joshua Bell. I would like to learn more about contemporary music.

food: well-prepared vegetables, Vietnamese, salads, soups, honey crisp apples, tree-ripened peaches, my own homemade gluten free granola. I don't eat meat, but I do indulge in sushi sometimes.

air, water, salt, ocean, sky, sun

and now for the things I would like to never do without: my son, my cell phone, my laptop, my car, my house, a best friend, a great relationship.

Building up my patient roster at my new practice. Why Clevelanders make such a big deal about the east-west divide.

Out dancing, knitting with friends, or perhaps at a movie.

When I was a child I used to climb up a tall tree and yodel like a gorilla.

... you are kind and generous, intelligent, a great communicator, passionate about your work and interests, and financially responsible; and you'd like a long term relationship with a kind, pretty, mature, flexible, fun, dancin' woman who's a really great catch!