A little bit about me....

I'm currently a BIG FAT man, have to lose 200 pounds. no choice here, health! I'm too old for much sex except in my dreams once in a blue moon. I don't feel sexy (the fat) My idea of a good thing is friendship, That said, I miss the fun dinner parties and weekend house parties of my time back East, not just two but as many folks as there are in the group. It is about nice dinners at home, drinks, talk, walks, that sort of stuff. Now as to who I am or who I have been, I graduated from a really good prep school, but as I was having too much fun, and maybe academic laziness, at that time in my life I did not get into an Ivy League college, (Harvard and Princeton were my first and second choices,) but it is just as well, as I don't think that I could have kept up had I been invited to attend. It was off to the University of Hawaii to study Oceanography, which as I love the sea and water and boats and sailing, Hawaii sounded nice to me. OK, it was nice, and after two years of science chemistry math and other courses that didn't work for me, I switched to Liberal Arts, and did just fine in History, Literature, Art, English, and all the fine arts. Got those degrees and five years of Hawaii was enough, so grad school was found in Paris, France, where I had intentions of earning two PhDs, and becoming a diplomat for a international non profit something like U. N. E. S. C. O. All that went to hell due to family finances, deaths, and THE STEPMOTHER FROM HELL'S arrival, That was 35 years ago, and changed my life completely. After settling my mom's estate I got a huge fortune dumped in my lap in the form of stock, which in the intervening years had fallen in value from $120. a share to less than $1 dollar. on a tax basis. That was still a lot of money, but nothing like what I was led to expect my entire life. So dumb needy me at age 24, decided to continue my life as I had been brought up to be and bought a Rolls Royce convertible, kinda cool for a 25 year old to drive about in, then saw the same two door car in the coupe version, so I had to have one of those too, then wanted a classic wooden yacht (my family all had their yachts) so I bought the one pictured,) in the mean time I flew back and forth to France where I had a house while I was in school, I owned that house for twenty years. I also had a beach house in Hobe Sound, Florida, and a Historic District house in New Castle, Delaware, and rented others as needed. I cruised in the boat up and down the Intercoastal Waterway from Nantucket to the Florida Keys every year, and ended up broke in ten years, flat broke, having never worked other than fun jobs as in fine wine cellars to learn about fine wines, or historical societies and museums to refine my connoisseurship. So I then at age 35 with zilch on my resume, and no network connections, I had to make a living. Minimum wage sucks. I first became a good butler to a very fine family, 'cause I know all that stuff, I used to have my own staff. Then got a job in a rare (books about books) book store (the biggest and best in the world), and another job as a grown stable boy for Mr. DuPont (this was in Delaware) to look after his carriage driving horses (he was a FINE man) I was bottom of the staff list, and he had many on staff. Loved the horses, dogs, and flock of peacocks, that were mine to look after too. Then on to Historical Society management jobs, and nonprofit fund raising executive jobs, and VP and General Manager of a direct marketing company in Boston that sold talking electronics for the blind. Ended my work days in Banking for Barclay's Bank, another wonderful company to work for, and decided to retire at 50 years of age, ten years ago. I would be happy to go back to work, but it would have to be interesting or lucrative -the concept of telecommuting intrigues me. I am a happy, kind, thoughtful, compassionate, sunny guy I know myself very well.


In my own words
for fun:
Relaxing, dining, dreaming. THINKING, reading, researching, Ebay buying used books on Amazon, beach walking daily for required exercise, new bike: recumbant tryke (EZ # USX HD 220 Ultra) to lose this weight. Books on tape and designing are fun to me.
my job:
Retired at age 50, from banking, Love to work, but nothing interesting has dropped into my lap to take me away from my interests. Have been a butler, book seller, museum keeper, chef, wine seller, fund raising executive, stable boy, high tec VP.
my ethnicity:
1/2 England, 1/8th Scotland, 1/8th Northern Ireland, 1/8th Ireland, 1/8th German Go back some 13 generations on the east coast - 1630 in New England and 1650 in New York. I belong to many genealogical and hereditarylineage societies in New York City
my religion:
United Church of Christ/Congregational-Honolulu but believe in what Buddhism teaches, ancient nature religions of Japan, totally against evangelism, fundamentalism, and feel religion is for others who need it, not for me Mother nature works for me.
my education:
The Peddie School, Hightstown, N. J. B. A. Art (University of Hawaii, Manoa) B. F. A Visual Design (University of Hawaii, Manoa) International Relations, Shiller College (Paris, France), Europe University Used to always take classes in gred studies
favorite hot spots:
The beach, the mountains, the forests, Oregon is beautiful. I live in a beach town with two state parks. Portland. Love to visit the temperate rainforests of the world, Europe, the South Pacific islands, Alaska crusing, sailing ships of the world.
favorite things:
Books, dogs, antiques, fine art, good music, male singers, museums, Amazon. com, color blue, collecting, wine, my fireside, seafood, well let's be honest, ALL FOOD, Grey Goose, male physique, but certainly not my own. Ormolu, chased and engraved goods
last read:
The internet (no, not all of it, not yet.) International Harold Tribune, New York Times, Oregonian, books all over the house, The Art Newspaper, Vanity Fair, Covertside (fox hunting), auction house catalogs, history books, vintage gay porn (40's-70's)