I was born in a minister's family, the last of five children, to parents who wanted their children to think for themselves.
I have been in love several times, married and divorced twice, and am looking for someone who is compatible. If it's just as friends, or friends with benefits, but we just get along, that is fine. If it's a woman I fall head-over-heels for, that will be fine, too.
I like to spend time with people, and I am very affectionate and have plenty of libido, but I need time alone to recharge. I am very active, and my mind is always running in several directions, but sometimes I just have to plop down and watch something on Netflix or TV, or just crack open a book and stay up late reading it.
I work in science education, after working in industry and research, and as an independent contractor, among other things. I finished my Bachelor's degree in mid-life, having had to postpone that for lack of when I was younger.
I love history and am working on our family history, hoping to publish it somewhere down the road.
I haven't smoked cigarettes since 1993, although I'd been addicted since high school.
My only living progeny is a senior in the University where I work, and I live alone on 32 acres at the end of a road, next to a forest.
I have kept a diary/planner since I was a teenager, and Ihave dozens of notebooks, and computer hard-drives full of all the images I've taken during the last five decades. Some of them are pretty good. I have written papers for presentation and publication, and am a respectable public speaker.
I am politically left-of-center. Way left, I'd say. I am very concerned about the state of our environment, and the threats to our democratic republic, from within and without.
I have a little, old sports car, a motorcycle, multiple bicycles, 3 kayaks, cross-country and downhill skis (multiple pairs), a canoe, and four sailboats. I ran 10k races when I was 20-something, used to volleyball two nights a week, and I still like to go dancing and rollerskating. Only recently, I've been able to fulfill an old dream, by going horseback riding a few times a week. I like to identify birds and trees and other animals, wherever I go. I hunt white-tailed deer and do all the processing myself. I like to have a few drinks and relax with friends. I like to sit by a fire in the back yard and listen to night sounds. It would be great to have a companion in some or all of those activities.