Cynthia

non-profit

avid reading -- almost any genre; art and architecture; cooking for friends and enjoying good food; conviviality; walking around town; movies; antiques and flea markets; travel; collecting Hermes scarves, tabletop items, vintage jewlery.

Whatever I've read most recently. Currently When French Women Cook, A Traveller in Italy, Jacques Pepin biog, American Pie--Tales from the Road, Seabiscuit, Dawn Powell from the 40s-50s, Italo Calvino, travel guides

random sampling: Dude Where's My Car, Babe, The Big Chill, Casablanca, all the old Italian Toto movies, all of Eric Rohmer's films, early Jack Lemmon stuff, oh my God -- it's hard to come up with just a few

opera, baroque, classical, latin jazz and blues; Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Cesaria Evora, Dinah Washington, I think Elvis deserves more serious consideration, too!

Gilligan's Island, Poirot and Sherlock Holmes on old PBS Mystery series, The Sopranos, new fave Curb Your Enthusiasm; Seinfeld of course! Also The Flintstones

I'm rather quiet and boring though I have a fantastic,
wicked sense of humor and enjoy the same in others. I live
a very simple but rich and fulfilling life for which I am
grateful. My home is very dear to me. The walls are
painted deep red, green and apricot. It's small but
filled with things I treasure -- photos, artwork, mementoes
and antiques. It has a balcony planted with red geraniums
and all kinds of herbs and lavender, very lovely to sit out
there on a summer's evening and hear the fountain just
below; the Big Dipper is right above. In college I studied
classical civ, art history and historic preservation. I
love to think about the people who came before us -- and
how they expressed the same joys and tribulations of
life that we experience. I am a very content and positive
person, though I don't mind having "blue days" which remind
me I'm alive and kicking.

The people closest to me have a fantastic ability to laugh -
- especially at themselves...they are kind, curious, want
to learn new things and have a very open mind, tending to
lean to the left, they are very smart, they
love animals, some listen to NPR but some do not. They
enjoy the finer things in life but know what is most
important.