I am in a long term relationship with a man I love, cherish and adore. We are best friends and I can't imagine life without him. I am a teacher of children with special needs and have taught for almost 25 years. I am artistic and find creating something to be very calming because I lose myself in the process of creativity. I love to write, and would like to write children's books after I retire. I am also an avid reader. I love history and/or historical fiction, novels of any kind, humor, or a great love story. I can sometimes have a twisted or sarcastic sense of humor depending on the situation and often find humor in things that others don't, but that's what makes me who I am.

It's a diverse group but here goes - Jesus, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Teddy Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Helen Keller, the first Queen Elizabeth, Monet, Renoir, Picasso, Matisse, Norman Rockwell, Coco Chanel, Neil Armstrong, Charles Schultz, Dr. Seuss, Walt Disney, John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holliday, John Jakes, Shelby Foote, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Jim Brown, Brian Sipe, Brady Quinn, Lebron James, Woody Hayes, Jerry Seinfeld

Music, art, museums, travel, reading, writing, dancing, sports, movies, hanging out with family and friends, discovering new places

I love to travel, read, dance, watch old movies from the 30's and 40's, and I'm into sports, particularly football, basketball and baseball. I am an avid fan of Cleveland sports teams, The Ohio State Buckeyes, and my alma mater - Mount Union College Purple Raiders football team (10 Div. 3 Championships) I love to go to new places and experience new things and I am willing to try almost anything as long as it doesn't gross me out!

R and B
Motown
Soul
Funk
Classic rock from 60's to the 80's
Beatles
Clapton
Led Zeppelin
Aerosmith
Van Hahlen
blues
some heavy metal
some country
Bach
Beethoven
anything by Frank Sinatra
Billie Holliday
Etta James

reruns of Seinfeld or Sex in the City, Friday Night Lights, The History Channel, HGTV, PBS, Madmen, Rescue Me, Comedy Central, King of the Hill, A and E, Turner Classic Movies, TV Land, Boomerang, VH1 Classic, ESPN, Sports Time Ohio, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Countdown with Keith Olbermman, C-SPAN

Gone With The Wind
The Women (original 1930's version)
On Borrowed Time (with Lionel Barrymore)
When Harry Met Sally
Diner
American Graffiti
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Bridget Jones' Diary
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Mona Lisa Smile
Almost Famous
Grease
Braveheart
The Patriot
Primal Fear
Kiss the Girls
Along Came a Spider
Seven
Duel
Jaws
Poltergeist
Freaks (from the 1930's)
Salem's Lot
Halloween
Brian's Song
Remember the Titans
We Are Marshall
Hoosiers
Fight Club
Rear Window
Christmas Vacation
It's A Wonderful Life
The Best Years of Our Lives
A Streetcar Named Desire
Jezebel, Now Voyager, and Little Foxes with Bette Davis
anything by Neil Simon

the Bible, anything by John Jakes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Jane Austen, Erica Jong or Nora Ephron, A Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Family Resemblences by Lowery Pei, Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks by Edward Hannibal, Angels Among Us by Don Fearheiley, and biographies too numerous to mention

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."

"When you find the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, you want the rest of your life to begin as soon as possible."

"What goes around, comes around."

My parents
the love of my life, who is a police officer
all men and women who have or are now serving in the armed forces