I’m one of those native New Yorkers whose breath is still taken away at the sight of the Brooklyn Bridge. But I’m not New York-centric (oh, just a little bit.) I love to travel—Spain and Portugal are two of my favorite destinations. I definitely have disparate sides. I read the New York Times but love the Daily News (or used to, anyway). I listen to Dylan but dance to Prince. Faulkner is fun but so is a Yankee game. I believe in passion in all parts of my life and seek that out in my work and relationships. I am a warm, caring, open-minded person who is interested in other people. My other interests: Ladino literature, urban culture, Indy movies, jazz & rock, novels & memoirs, lakes & mountains (Catskills!), family & friends.

I would love to be with a man who is warm, compassionate, honest, intelligent, & sensual; someone who sees adventure in a long-term commitment; someone who is passionate and into exploring all aspects of a relationship (kind of like Henry Miller and Anais Nin); someone who has an appreciation of high and low culture--that means we can read Rilke’s poetry one moment and watch Seinfeld the next. We would both find conventionality boring.

I am at a point in my life where I see everything as a learning experience. Self-growth is key.

Oh yeah..what am I doing with my life? I work, hard, connect with friends, read, travel whenever I can, walk, contemplate the world...

Listening, traveling into the unknown, analyzing just about anything.

My silvery hair, dangling earrings, La Font glasses and my New York sensibility.

BOOKS
Giovanni's Room; Leviathan; Bel Canto;The History of Love; What I Loved; Tristam Shandy; Hamlet; The Fortress of Solitude; Anything by Hemingway or Faulkner; Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet"; Howl & Kaddish; Leaves of Grass; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay;

MOVIES
West Side Story; Let No Man Write my Epitaph; Casablanca; Fellini; Hitchcock; Kurosawa; The Shawshank Redemption; My Beautiful Launderette; MAS,; Cinema Paradiso; Dog Day Afternoon; Dirty Dancing; The Godfather; A Streetcar Named Desire; On the Waterfront; White Christmas; Oklahoma; Fiddler on the Roof; To Kill a Mockingbird; To Have and to Have Not; Moonstruck; The Dirty Dozen; Network; South Pacific; Some Like it Hot; American Graffiti

MUSIC
Dylan, Prince, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Armstrong, Sonny Rollins,The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, James Carter (I just saw him at the Newport jazz festival and he blew me away!)

FOOD
Good NYC pizza, sushi, grilled veggies and chicken, avocados; dark chocolate (does that count as food?)

My journal; dark chocolate; a great novel; close friends and family; Walks around NYC; travel outside of NYC

Life; love; how great it was that Obama was elected; traveling the world; great writers

Wnding down from a hectic work week and looking forward to relaxing--either going out or enjoying time at home.

I hate doing the personals...but am addicted to answering the questions on Okay Cupid.

You feel that we have something in common and are serious about finding a long-term relationship.