Bob Read
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Retired |
| Location | Kingsville, ON, Canada |
| Introduction | When I'm not painting, I enjoy blogging about my life's experiences on my website www.bobreadartist.com. In my former lives I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in India where I taught math and physics, then went into journalism and TV news where I was an anchorman/reporter/news director, then into real estate for many years. Now retired and serious about my painting and writing. |
| Interests | Painting, writing, reading, chess, hiking, biking, travel |
| Favorite movies | Lawrence of Arabia, Good Will Hunting, Witness, The Flowers of War...phenomenal movie about a "priest" trying to save Chinese school girls from Japanese soldiers in Nanking during WWII. |
| Favorite music | Easy listening, Glenn Miller, Dave Brubeck, Sarah Brightman, etc |
| Favorite books | My own...written in 2005, Risk Hotline for Real Estate, on Amazon.com. It concerns how buyers, sellers, and Realtors can avoid many of the issues and problems that come up in buying and selling a home. I've read most of Michener's books, Mark Twain's...the first truly great American storyteller. I try to write in his style, with humor and pathos. Wm. Calvin's The Ascent of Mind, a fascinating study of the evolvement of man's intellect; Stephen Hawking...his books on space and time; and of course, Ehloe Boussel's The Chocolate Connoisseur. |