I like teddy bears, angels, music, art, literature, food, Paris, mountains, lakes, beaches, hiking, exploring, talking, animals, children, hugs, travel, moonlight, languages, friends, romance, princesses, loving and being loved, God.

I am formerly married, with three grown children, four grandchildre​n, and two FeLV+ cats: a Russian blue and a calico kitten.

​​I just got engaged

to my Russian penpal

who's been writing me for NINE YEARS.

Ok, so we're a bit slow.

But it's wonderful!

She's wonderful.

Life's wonderful!​​

Speak/read/w​rite English, Thai ไทย, Lao ລາວ, Spanish español; some Russian Русский, French, Greek, Hebrew

Music, photography,​ woodworking,​ travel, cooking, languages

contemporary​ Christian, gospel, blues/jazz, classical, lite rock and pop, traditional and modern country, pretty much everything except heavy metal and screeching opera

Medicine Man, Doctor Zhivago, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Star Wars

The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Futurama, Family Guy, Austin City Limits

Currently reading Master and Margarita​ (Мастер и Маргарита, but I'm reading it in English) by Bulgakov.

Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, anything by Max Lucado, Lee Stroebel

Be who you are; ask for what you want; don't settle for less. Most of us spend years trying to figure out the first two, and while we're doing that, running afoul of the third.  -- Anonymous.

It's easier to fall in love with your best friend than it is to become friends with your lover. -- Me.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. -- Charles Dickens in David Copperfield.​ (Don't spend more than you make!)

It takes more to BE a father than to BECOME one! -- Anonymous.

There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them.
-- Joseph Brodsky

Nadie puede hacerte sentir inferior sin tu permiso. Nunca lo dés.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt