i am smart,, articulate...and i'm told, easy on the eyes. i am healthy, fit, trim.
i crochet & knit hats for my business. i love books. i read every day and usually have 3 going at once; the public library is my very best friend.

i paint in acrylics, & oils, watercolors when i'm on the fly...draw when/wherever... and cartoon.

i subscribe to the atlantic ; harper's, the new yorker, esopus, provincetown arts, the nation, the NY Review of books, the [new!] new republic, the nation [on line]

i like the theater, fine art ; looking at good architecture , jazz, classical music [Chopin is #1], tons of other musical genres too many to mention here...my 2 very friendly, UNscratchy and not at all mean cats Buster & Winkle, my 2 incredible kids, driving to a new undiscovered location and then eating dinner there.

i was born and raised in NYC; central park was my front yard... and am proud of that... i KNOW that the obscene rents and vanishing middle class values will never take away the heroic , even innocent NYC i knew and still love...i spend a fair amount of time in Columbia county..

i guess i'd admit to being a semi-lapsed-jewish-buddhist-pantheist-semiatheist-hedonist-humanist.

i was lucky to have lived in paris for 2 yrs.... i learned the language AND most importantly it taught me how to be humbled by and flooded w. respect for a culture that's not my own.

caveats: if you don't like to sit with a good book several afternoons or evenings a week, if you don't maintain some kind of steady relationship with current events and enjoy a lively discussion of same, if you don't like a stroll thru MoMA or the Met, if you sneeze after meeting Buster & Winkle.....well then....let''s not waste our hard-earned spare time [actually TOO much time] carved out for this rather strange way to meet people.
oh yes: i only respond to those who have pictures posted

silly question

knitting for my little biz

my smile ?

words: all of dickens, james salter, jess walter, vonnegut, updike, mailer, hemingway, laurie colwin, e.b. white, styron, heller, bellow, roth. hitchens, amis, lasdun, .. too many to write here----

plays: odets, miller, chekov, R & H, shanley, o'neill, new musical theater----

music: classical [symphonic, chamber, piano etudes] jazz [coltrane, brubeck, mulligan, baker, billie] reggae, the blues----Steely Dan, sondheim, little feat, clapton, hot tuna, stevie... again, too many genres and artists to mention here

most any kind of food...but am tending to avoid meat these days.

lost in translation [most of bill murray's] citizen kane, manchurian candidate [the ORIGINAL one-] napolean dynamite, w. a of Va wolfe, the misfits, marty, hugo, most indie documentaries that say something important and relevant, all fellini, all goddard, all renoir...there are too many to mention in this category [dad worked in movie biz so they've been in my ether as much as air]

humor , humanity and hubris [in you, too], pistachios, leaping [pref. on sand], singing REALLY loudly in the car, books. [that's 7]

life and death

busy doing something

is not for the internet [nutha silly question]..but here's an open thing:
i dislike intensely the IM feature. pls do not use that annoying intrusive little pop up instant message feature. it will be ignored!
merci bien.

you have a picture...and can read & understand what i wrote.