I'm retired from the workplace (oh joy!) and enjoying exploring the many other dimensions of life along with my spouse and my golden retriever Sophie. I have a grown son who is a flight engineer for the U.S. Navy and lives in Oklahoma City. Hubbie & I might consider moving out there once he retires from teaching at Wesleyan Univ. in Middletown, CT. It's so much less expensive to live out there; the cost-of-living is high in CT and it's a tax nightmare. And though it's wonderful in the summertime (we live near the shoreline), winter is a long drawn-out affair. Still, I'd miss my home in the woods and the many interesting songbirds that live here or stop by during migration, including lots of hummingbirds.

Interests:

Reading (I have an Amazon Kindle e-reader and download tons of stuff to read on it); knitting shawls using interesting high-end yarns; spinning wool (I learned to spin in Albuquerque, NM during one summer we spent out there); birding; gardening; on-line courses; riding around in my Toyota convertible; grilling; restauranting; inhabiting a summer hammock.

Music:

Jazz mostly, but also bluegrass & classical. Favorite bluegrass band -- the Seldom Scene, especially the John Duffy years.

Movies:

Favorite movies: My Sweet Little Village, the Fireman's Ball, Kolya, Lenin Is Dead, many others.

Books:

Poetry by John Keats, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, & the First World War poets. Books (various): recent reads include The Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and the fantasy trilogy (the Dark Ways) by Philip Pullman.

Television:

Numbers; Moonlight; 24.