About

Aloof yet affable, idiosyncratic, sometimes crass, clever, unpretentious, liberal, egalitarian, never bored when left to my own devices, sans drama. Myriad interests include cinema, music, reading, healthy eating, farmers markets, organics, green living, foreign cultures and cuisine, nature, travel, hiking, thrift stores, board games, ad infinitum.

Favorite saying

• ""A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." ~ Bernard Meltzer "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." ~ Henry David Thoreau "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." ~ Jonathan Swift "We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect." ~ Ambrose Bierce "I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like anyone I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality...." ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau "All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity." ~ James Fenimore Cooper “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.” ~ Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights “Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion – human religion – but any number of faiths.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi"