G4409, 83, D, 5’8’’, Retired; part time social work.
Favorite books: Abundant Living; Further Along the Road Less Traveled; Yoga:28 day exercise plan.
Favorite authors: M.S. Peck;Werner Erhard; Wayne Dyer; John Grisham; Alan Watts.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: Prefer liberal radio stations such as Paciafica and it's affiliates.
Interest and taste in the arts: diversity.
Interest in travel/favorite places: visiting relatives, friends, and Unitarian retreats.
Hobbies & pastimes: bridge,other card games; swimming; walking; square dancing-in round, ballroom, social action; etc.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: more and more people against the Iraq War and against destroying Social Security.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: That Bush got reelected, the invasion of Iraq, discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: that they value making a difference over being materialistic.
Additional comment about yourself: who I am is that everyone experience joy by making a difference.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): phone, e-mail or write.
Mitchellville, MD
G4407, 59, W, 5’11’’, Real estate appraiser. Queens College, Pratt Institute.
Favorite books: The End of Time; Hamlet ; Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
Favorite authors: Shakespeare, Borges, William Carlos Williams, Steven Pound, etc.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: Sierra Club, NY Review of Books.
Interest and taste in the arts: Painting, pre-impressionist through modern; Poetry: all.
Interest in taste in music: Enjoy all music except hip hop and rap.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: Philosophical, existential, European post W.W.II, and paradoxical; film noir, Bergman, Kurosawa, Wells, Felini, Vittoria De Sicca; Citizen Kane,
Rashomon, Casablanca, Dark Passage, Bicycle Thief, Sunshine (with Ralph Fiennes).
Interest in travel/favorite places: Infrequent travel . Highway 1 in California.
Hobbies & pastimes: Read and write poetry, long walks, occasional bike riding, good movies.
Religion and interest in religion: Jewish, non observant, believer in spiritual values closest to the compassion of Buddhism.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: Get my poems and those works of my wife’s published.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: None.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: Our society is being subverted by a minority determined to undo the “great society”.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: compassionate, passionate about life; sweet, bright, creative.
Write a short sketch about yourself : Always try to be passionately alive each moment . Try always to be patient, specifically in retrospect. Spontaneously good sense of humor. Persistence in what ever I set out to accomplish.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): All.
Dobbs Ferry, NY
G4405, 50, S, 6’, Licensed Practical Nurse/Free Lance Writer.
Favorite books: Generations; The Nine Nations of North America, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order; The Burglar in the Library.
Favorite authors: None as such-my reading has been very diverse.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: None at this point.
Interest and taste in the arts: Poetry readings (audience).
Interest in taste in music: 60’s music: Melanie, Beatles, Simon & Garfunckel, Carol King.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: Foul Play, Dr. Strangelove, When Harry Met Sally.
Interest in travel/favorite places: Mexico, Australia, New Mexico.
Hobbies & pastimes: Have been diverse considering classes for waltz and horseback riding. Next: unicycling!
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: Start a family.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: The cultural creatives; the creative class.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: It’s heading into a period comparable to The Great Depression/WW II.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Joie de vivre; integrity.
Write a short sketch about yourself: My life mission is to seek out the colorful, offbeat, and the zany.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): Write!
Seattle, WA
G4404, 32, S, 5’6’’.
Favorite books: Ender's Game, Crime & Punishment, War and Peace, Wheel of Time series,
The Relativity of Wrong.
Favorite authors: Plato, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Isaac Asimov, Robert Jordan, Orson Scott Card, Gogol.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Science News, Mathematics Magazine.
Interest and taste in the arts: Architecture, Realism in painting, Music I can dance to
Interest in travel/favorite places: Russia, Canada, anything far north in summer. Anything as different from Florida or Las Vegas as possible.
Hobbies & pastimes: Reading, mathematics, crocheting, computers, wood- and metalworking, kayaking, rollerblading.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: Increasing collaboration and unity between nations, notably the EU.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: Domination of American government by conservative extremists, decline of social values.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Shared interests/attitudes, compassion, support and tolerance of imperfections.
Additional comment about yourself: Tired of being alone. Looking for companionship, understanding.
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): email preferred, paper mail acceptable.
How did you hear about Single Booklovers: acquaintance
Auburndale, MA
G4403, 61, S, 5’, Professor/Writer. Columbia University.
Favorite books: A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man; Anna Karenina; A Handful of Dust; Sons and Lovers.
Favorite authors: Contemporary: Roth, Bellow, Cheever; classic: Dickens, Proust.
Favorite periodicals & newspapers: New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, New York Sun, New Criterion.
Interest and taste in the arts: Renaissance; British painting, 19th and 20th Century art.
Interest in taste in music: Simon & Garfunckel; Rogers & Hart; Cole Porter; 19th Century European symphonies.
Interest and taste in films/favorites: Billy Wilder, Fellini, David Lean; esp.: Double Indemnity, La Dolce Vita!
Interest in travel/favorite places: Lived in London; no present interest.
Hobbies & pastimes: Art history; trout fishing; watercolor.
Religion and interest in religion: Roman Catholic; strong interest in Christian and Jewish writers.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your life time: Find a wonderful woman. Write more books.
What changes in recent society please you the most?: Access opportunities for disabled. Enhancement of museums and cultural facilities.
What disturbs you most about today's society?: Incivility, the media, vulgarity, dumbing down of culture.
Most important characteristics in a date or mate: Kindness and an understanding heart. Intelligence, general attractiveness.
Write a short sketch about yourself: I use a wheelchair, but I’m very active professionally and socially; very serious about career. Devoted to friends. I love NYC!
Preferred method of contact by other SBL members (write, phone, e-mail): All.
New York City
G4400, 66, D, Part time clinical psychologist. University of Miami, University of Massachusetts.
Favorite books: This is a real toughie. My reading spans both fiction and nonfiction which includes cultural studies. In fiction I favor contemporary literature, but still read the classics.
Favorite authors: Updike, Killldera, George Eliot, Conrad, Henry James, Richard Russo etc.
Favorite periodical & newspapers New Yorker (30+ yrs.!), NYR Books, Wilson Quarterly, Atlantic Monthly.
Interest & taste in the arts: Music: jazz & classical. Painting: modern abstract.
Interest & taste in films:(favorites Indie and foreign (recent favs: MY ARCHITECT, THE STATION AGENT.
lnterest & taste in music WhOOps! (see above). I have a large collection of both.
Interest in travel(favorite places): Low interest in travel. Do like the mountains of North Carolina.
Religion & interest in religion: Non religious, maybe a bit spiritual.
Hobbies & pastimes: I sculpt in wood and stone - abstractions.
What changes in recent society please you the most? Huh ? We're following Imperial Rome.
What disturbs you most about today's society? Media focus on celebrity and lack of investigative
reporting.
Things you would still like to accomplish in your lifetime. Get my biography of Joyce's Ulysses published.
Most important. characteristics in a date or mate: Wit, humor, curiosity, a rounded life, good
communication skills and a lively intelligence.
Additional comments about yourself: I try to balance the indoors with the outdoors and
accordingly enjoy being outside hiking, bicycling, kayaking, walking.
Preferred method of contact by another member of SBL: Call or email.
Tampa, FL
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