I'm pretty average. I am, however, attached to a high-mileage chassis (60+). I am retired from the audio-video business world. My background is concert sound design & engineering; theatre sound design; consumer electronics design and management; home theatre design. I always envisioned myself as an artist but I'm really just a business guy who teaches.

I have been writing for about 4 years - mostly journaling and essays. My muse encourages me to blog or submit essays for publication. I am starting to play with characters and plot and am anxious to try my hand at writing erotica. This seems a great and supportive site to give it a try.

Papa-Husband-Friend-Feminist-Progressive
"You may in fact have the right to do a thing, but is that thing, the right thing to do." Justice Potter Stewart

Interests
My interests are varied and eclectic. In no particular order: writing; piano; listening to music (live and on my stereo - analog mostly); parenting; cooking; scent and taste of a woman; Italy, Provence, Impressionist art, Musée d'Orsay; F1; skiing; massaging my wife; poetry jam; women's college volleyball; photography; the female body; wine; sitting back and listening to intelligent people, a'la Dorothy Parker, Harpo Marx, Alexander Woolcott, Neysa McMein and the regulars of the Algonquin Round Table.
I love sex, erotica, women, moderate kink, romance, touching, sensuality, sharing, watching

== Results from bdsmtest.org ==
78% Switch
76% Exhibitionist
76% Vanilla
75% Voyeur
68% Non-monogamist
66% Experimentalist
62% Rope bunny
54% Brat
52% Submissive
48% Rigger
32% Dominant
17% Masochist
16% Daddy/Mommy
14% Slave
10% Ageplayer
10% Brat tamer
9% Owner
9% Pet
7% Primal (Hunter)
5% Degradee
3% Master/Mistress
2% Degrader
1% Sadist
0% Primal (Prey)
0% Boy/Girl

Favorite Books
Anam Cara ~~by: John O'Donohue
To Kill A Mockingbird ~~ by: Harper Lee
The Profit ~~ by: Kahlil Gibran
The Harry Potter Series
Gracefully Grayson ~~ by: Ami Polonsky
Telegraph Avenue; The Yiddish Policeman's Union; Summerland~~ by: Michael Chabon
Lock In; Agent to the Stars ~~ by: John Scalzi
Delta of Venus ~~ by: Anais Nin
Plum Island, The General's Daughter, Up Country ~~ by: Nelson DeMille
Harpo Speaks ~~ by: Harpo Marx
Shawshank Redemption ~~ by: Stephen King
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas ~~ by: Hunter S. Thompson

Favorite Movies
Arrival
To Kill A Mockingbird
Searching For Bobby Fischer
Roman Holiday - original w/ Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck
Jo Jo Rabbit
Chocolat
Shakespeare In Love
All That Jazz
Wall-e
Stairway To Heaven (aka, A Question Of Life And Death)
Jeanne de Florette & Manon Of The Spring
Apollo 13
October Sky
Blazing Saddles
Cousin, Cousine
Inserts
Spetters
Kelly's Heroes
Back To The Future - series
Field Of Dreams

Favorite TV Shows
Not much of a TV watcher but some shows on Amazon and Netflix grab me.
The Queen's Gambit
Bron | Broen
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The Newsroom
The West Wing
Queer Eye
Duchess Of Duke Street
Frank's Place
WKRP
Maximum Bob
Home Town - on HGTV
Top Gear - the original BBC

Favorite Music
Rock, blues, old jazz, rock-'n-roll, Miles, classical, chamber, choral

Chopin Piano Concerto #1
Dvorak Cello Concerto
Beethoven Piano Concerto #4
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Grieg Piano Concerto
Choral Music

Eric Clapton
Rolling Stones
Billie Holiday
Diana Krall
Eva Cassidy
Emilie-Clair Barlow
Miles Davis - KIND OF BLUE
Tony Bennett & KD Lang
K'eb Mo
Taylor Swift
Hank Jones - piano
Chick Corea
Traditional New Orleans Jazz
Samantha Moore
Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Little Wing"

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My Spotify Playlist (music that molded me) - mostly the rock stuff I love -
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ab5UdmIBt1QgIpbsxdBc1?si=l1vbB1m5SMOreIUUqgl34w