I am a 49 year old married woman with two kids who still feels 20.  I would like to broaden my horizons and meet new friends.  I have traveled to Mexico, Italy, France, Spain, and Italy.  I speak some Spanish and Italian.  I have homeschooled​ my kids since the beginning.  I am still homeschoolin​g one, but my oldest has started high school!  What a change!  I love animals, mountains, bikes, and poetry.  I would love to have intelligent conversation​s on any topic.  I often find myself lonely.  I look at people for their heart and what is inside.  I am not judgmental and I am a good listerner.

I would like to correspond with intelligent people who are willing to discuss issues across the board, joke around, and be serious.  I would like to learn from all I meet and will always show respect.  Please do the same.

Scrapbooking​, gardening, bike riding, walks, reading, writing, crocheting, cooking, genealogy, history, animals, walks, poetry, Qi Gong, meditation, piano, saxophone, conga and bongo drums, talking, sunsets and sunrises, stargazing, ocean breezes and mountain air, board games, Text Twist and logic puzzles, history, psychology, science, forensics.

Hard to choose:  country, rock, jazz, bluegrass, swing, R&B, big band.  I like Bob Seger, Pat Benatar, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Al Green, The Dramatics, The Commodores, Herbie Hancock, and Mitch Miller, Joan Baez, to name a few.

The Choirboys, The Lion King, The Wizard of Oz, The Power of One, Thelma and Louise, Ruthless People, The Great Outdoors, Bill Cosby:  Himself, Braveheart, Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Call of the Wild, White Fang, Iron Will, Willow, The Ten Commandments​, It's A Wonderful Life, Gone With the Wind, The Patriot, Dances With Wolves, Beyond the Law, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, E.T., Cat Ballou, Paint Your Wagon.

Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, All My Children, Wild Chronicles, CSI.

The Outsiders, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, I Love You Forever, medical thrillers by Tess Gerritson, authors:  Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Steven Hunter, C.S. Lewis, The Women's Room.  Nonfiction:  crime, WWII, historical, Greek, poetry, essays, this list could be neverending.​

"Nothin​g gold can stay" S.E.Hinton
"Our breath came out white clouds, mingled, and hung in the air"
from Diamonds and Rust -- Joan Baez