Thinking woman (yes...they do exist), with good sense of humor, widow, trying to figure out life.  <br>Many interests, including computing, a good movie, books, music, travel, cooking,  a walk on a moonlit beach on a warm summer night.  Firm believer of common sense, yet hopeless romantic...<br>Fell in love with the USA the first time I visited... <br>I would like to write with HONEST men and/or women,  no one-liners please, someone who will write more than a couple of times, and more than once a month, someone interested in real friendship,  somebody who has something to say...   I'ld like to e-mail and chat with honest american or european people, around my age.<br>Who knows, it could be the beginning of a great friendship !!
Be aware that I do like to travel, so if we  become friends it could be that - after a while - I "invite" myself over for a visit, and you will equally be invited to my country too....so if that is a problem, because you have a wife or a husband who wouldn't aprove of that...perhaps it's best not to write at all....

No weirdos, no visa problems and no African and/or Asian men wanting to marry me.  Money scams will be deleted immeditately !  And oh, no 20 year old boys either...I have sons older than that myself !
If you contact me, it would be nice to have a profile with a photo (preferably one of yourself !)  on this site .  READ MY LIPS : NO PROFILE AND NO PHOTO = NO ANSWER !!!  I report all scammers immediately !
And please don't call me "gorgeous", "sweetie", "honey" or "babe" or whatever, because it gives me the creeps, it's a sure way not to get an answer !

travelling, reading, writing, hiking, biking, cooking (and eating it afterwards :))), crosswords, scrabble....

classical music and oldies - no boom boom music

The Horse Whisperer - Out of Africa (hey, what can I say, I like Robert Redford)- The Lord of the Rings trilogy - The Village

Sex and the City - Grey's Anatomy - CSI - Criminal Minds... As for BBC programs I like almost all police series : Wire in the Blood, Messiah, Morse, Lewis, Waking the Death, Rebus....Michael Palin's travels around the world and David Attenborough's fascinating views on our planet Earth and everything that is living on it.

fantasy and historical novels (fiction and non-fiction), some travel books too...anything really as long as it is well written

"My soul's had enough chicken soup. It wants some chocolate"
"Things even out : I don't look as good naked as I used to, and guys my age don't see as well as they used to..."
"I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog"
"I think-therefore I'm single"
"Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake."
"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something"
"I don't have hot flashes...I have short, private vacations in the tropics."
And this one....I read  it somewhere not so long ago, I just HAVE to share it, I find it so funny....or is it sad....? Here it is :
The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974.
That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.