Owner of engineering company that sells equipment both in the US and overseas.
Interests Family and friends. Hosting guests. Computer related - design, writing, games, email. Landscape and house design.
Favorite Books Anything by Robert Ludlum, John LeCarre, Michael Crichton, Vince Flynn. Most of my reading is escapist on long plane flights. For home reading I enjoy history, particularly English history and travel books.
Favorite Movies The Big Country (a sea captain - Gregory Peck - goes to visit his intended on a ranch. She thinks he is a wimp, but learns differently). It has some nice twists, and some really memorable lines by Burl Ives. Henry V with Kenneth Branaugh. Oddly enough, The Mummy Returns (dragged to it by grandson). Original Star Wars trilogy.
Favorite Music Most of the 70s soft rock - even (dare I say) The Loving Spoonful. Brazilian jazz samba. Jazz Guitar - especially the late Charlie Bryd and Wes Montgomery.
CHAPTER 5“Batching it isn’t all that it’s cut out to be,” I thought. My dad had left a to-do list that kept me pretty much occupied. The gardener still came once a week to do the flower beds, but it was up to me to take care of the grass and clip the shr...
