Retired IT consultant, moderate progressive life-long Democrat, musician, former Persian cat breeder, animal activist, environmentalist, civil libertarian

politics, music, animals, art, dance

Faure art songs, Debussy, Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Rolling Stones, Eagles, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Josh Stone, Bette Midler

Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, So you think you can dance?, Saving Grace, Burn Notice

The Green Mile, Good Night and Good Luck

anything by Edmund Burke, Susan B. Anthony, Abraham Lincoln

Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Russ Feingold