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I turned sixty this year which seemed weird at first, but I've grown into the problem of aging and it's okay. I'm glad to still be here. I feel about 35, and actually retain a lot of views from my 20s--you know those wonderful hippie years in the late 60s. I have a degree in English Lit. and a masters in Dance (modern dance). Taught all levels, including college. I retired and stayed home with two wonderful little boys who are all grown up now. I also am deaf but am greatly helped by hearing aids and do not sign because I want to live in the real world.

Reading, writing, gardening, flower arranging, playing Scrabble, walking, dancing (modern dance),

I love to read, especially books from Britain and Ireland, but also have favorite American writers like Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace. My passion is the outdoor songbirds--I have about 6 feeders out all year, and running water (spring), heated birdbath (winter). I like hiking and surfing the internet, and keeping in touch with friends and family via the Internet.

iI am deaf so limited in what I can hear. Have never heard lyrics, so my loving husband has sung a kit fir me. I love old stuff--the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkle, Billy Joel, Leonard Cohen. But I grew up loving the classics--Mozart, Bach, Schubert, especially in chamber music, which I can hear better than symphony. I also have tinnitus that is so loud it can't be tested, so listening to music, is a passion I've had to let go of.

M*A*S*H*, House, Law and Order, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Letterman, CNN News, Weeds, Antiques Roadshow, Masterpiece Theater

The Graduate, Tootsie, Hamlet (Richard Burton), Beckett, Lawrence oif Arabia, The English Patient, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The Princess Bride, The Americanization of Emily, Tom Jones, Dr. Zhvago, Singin' in the Rain', Can-Can, The Red Shoes, Lilli, People Will Talk, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, West Side Story, Klute, Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Wilde, The Big Lebowski, The Shawshank Redeption, Power of One, A Passage to India

To Catch An Angel, Spartina, Almost Famous, Tom Jones, Middlemarch, Infinite Jest, A Heartwarming Work of Incredible Genius, On Chesil Beach, Nureyev, David Copperfield, Lirttle Dorrit, Amsterdam, Atonement, Consider the Lobster, The Broom of the System, The The Pearl, The English Patient, Hawaii, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The truth is never pure and rarely simple"--Oscar Wilde
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on"--William Shakespeare
"Do not say she is happy being crazy./ Let her finish her dance." W.B. Yeats"
And East ruishes West and West rushes down, no matter."Wallace Stevens
"Never trouble trouble til trouble troubles you."--J.W. Holmes (my father)

Winston Churchill, Helen Keller, Arthur Ashe, Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy, Margot Fonteyn, Ruolph Nureyev, Jacquline Kennedy, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare

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