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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Retired (2002)
Location Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States
Introduction Formerly an English Instructor with journalism and humanities side focus. Married to college sweetie for 50+ years who actually got me started with crosswords & clean living….well, she does her best.
Interests Reading, outdoor activities (without crampons please), grandson & a transitioning “them” with pronouns yet to be affirmed, public engagement (behind the scenes please), X-words & environmental issues
Favorite Movies Mostly watching foreign TV series like Midnight Cafe, Borgen, Dark, Call My Agent, Occupied, The Killing, Broadchurch & pretty much any Walter’s Choice on PBS. Movies I'd see again just off the top of my head: Blade runner, Babe, Princess Bride, Brazil, Out of Africa, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Memento, The Jerk, Departures, Airplane, A Fish called Wanda, Raise the Red Flag, Syriana, The Big Lebowski. If I think about it for a while or spent an hour on IMDB, the list would stretch as Buzz Lightyear says, "to infinity & beyond."
Favorite Music I go for baroque, but zydeco will do in a pinch or maybe something in between? With Amazon Prime I find myself revisiting Warren Zevon or other nostalgic voices. And even the local library doesn’t want the boxes of CDs stashed in the basement—sigh!
Favorite Books What I am Reading at the moment. Just finished a slog with Facing the Mountain, so now I can treat myself with a reread of Nesbo’s series featuring my favorite drunk detective Harry Hole now in trouble in Southeast Asia.