The Dignified Writer
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Transportation |
| Occupation | Semi-Retired/Americorp Volunteer |
| Location | Kenmore, New York |
| Introduction | Anything having to do with dinners, bread and breakfasts at Niagara On The Lake, observing a play at The Stratford Festival, observing a ballet At Shea's Performing Arts Center, watching the Cubs try to play baseball!!!! |
| Interests | Drive, determination, and character (what I am doing when nobody is looking) are the tenets that reflect my persona. I can be intense. When I laugh, it is side- splitting; robust. When my sensitive side is touched, at 58, I cry(high estrogen levels!!) Finding fresh & exceptional ways of engaging my very deserving wife, Donna; model railroading, model shipbuilding, movies that take one into the soul of humanity, keeping in touch with some of the USMC veterans I have gotten to know through my son's 5-year USMC experience, Keeping company with my very special Duchshund, Tootsie!!!(she is Boudica; Dachshund language for beautiful) |
| Favorite movies | On The Beach(the 1959 version with Gregory Peck & Ava Gardner), Gladiator, The Family Man, Crash, Rudy, Gone With The Wind, The Right Stuff, Blackhawk Down, Secretary, Big, Back To the Future, Moulin Rouge, Rocky, Breakfast Club, Exodus, The Ten Commandments, Charly(Clif Robertson), Darby O'Gill and the Little People |
| Favorite music | U-2, Soundtrack of Phantom of the Opera Andrew LLoyd Webber, The Theme song of the movie Exodus- Ferrante & Teicher, Peter Gunn, Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli, Celtic Women, All I Want To Do(is make Love To You)Heart, Road To Moscow-Al Stewart, It's The Final Countdown Earth, Homeward Bound Simon & Garfunkel, Telstar Tornados, Home, Mike Buble, American Soldier Toby Keith, 60's Pop Music, 80's Pop Music. And I am finding that Music is an ongoing discovery channel for expression and message. |
| Favorite books | Ones that are based on fact. Although I must admit The Story Of O by Pauline Reage is fascinating. |