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My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | retired |
| Location | Bay area, California, United States |
| Introduction | MY LIKES: Reading, writing, blogging, thinking, new information, open spaces, sunsets, scenery, people, diversity, travel, debating, vegetarianism, nature, watching flowers and trees grow, enjoying my wife and children, tennis, badmington, volleyball, hardball, walking, talking, listening to trees growing, scrabble, chess, crosswords, word games, boggle, international checkers. MY DISLIKES: Racists, hunters, war mongers, sadists, astrology, pomposity, holy rollers, extremists, procrastinators, liars, exaggerators, boasters. There may be more but I can't think of any more. That's it folks...oh yeah, almost forgot, I spent 4 years in the Canadian army during World War 2 trying to stay alive as I fought my way through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Hope you enjoy my blog. See you when I see you. |
| Favorite Music | By composers: Brahms, Bach, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Korsakoff, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Dvorak, Verdi, Puccini, Prokofiev, Schubert. Sibelius, Gershwin, Mahler, Bernstein, Copeland, Haydn, Vivaldi, Handel, Berlioz, Rossini, Paganini, Grieg, Puccini, Debussy, Rimski-Korsakov, Grieg, Liszt, Bizet, Smetana, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Salieri, Borodin, Stravinski, Khachaturian, Richard Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Leonard Bernstein. |
| Favorite Books | My favorite authors are: Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow Geoffrey Chaucer, Anton Chekhov, Doctorow, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Faulkner, Homer, J.Huxley, Ibsen, Ishiguru, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Primo Levi, Erica Jong, Mailer, Malamud, Marquez, Henry Miller, Czeslau Milosz, Neruda, Oates, Plath, Potok, Proust, M.Puig, Richler, Romaine Roland, Steinbeck, Theroux, Mark Twain, Whitman, Ustinov, Vidal, Voltaire, Vonnegut, Guy VanderHaeghe SOME MORE FAVORITES: Jorge Amado, Honore Balzak, Pierre Burton, Bertold Brecht, Brendan Behen, James Agee, Caldwell, Albert Camus, Leonard Cohen, Homberto Darwin, Charles Dickens, Defoe, Rene Descartes, W.E. Dubois, Alexandre Dumas, T.S.Eliot, Abba Eban, Umberto Eco, Jorge Ibarguengoitia, Ibsen, Vincent Ibanez, Cristopher Isherwood, Kazua Ishiguro, John Irving |