Cheryl - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am a lifelong CD although not as active as before. Am well educated, cultured, love good humor, and a professional (more details if, and when, I get to know you. Music is my special passion, as is dance of many sorts. Love reading, exercise, movies and hiking. %D%A%D%AI call myself athiest because I do not believe an any manner of interventionist deity but I was born Jewish, am very proud of that aspect of my heritage and the values it celebrates. I am a proud member of a synagogue that practices Judaism from a humanist perspective. %D%A%D%AI am the father of a son who is a marine infantry officer who survived two combat deployments in Iraq and a daughter who is a college english major. ..

My Interests

See above. I also love to watch selected sports--hockey, football, lacrosse and rugby. I used to play football!!

I'd like to meet:

Love to meet and chat with people of all sorts, gender, and orientation, who are intelligent, open minded, and enjoy good, sophisticated, and eclectic music, liberal politics, and liberal religion.

Music:

All sorts but renaissance/medieval, baroque, classical period, chamber music, BLUES!, alt-country (and high tempo pop country), celtic, nordic, klezmer/sephardic, old time gospel, newgrass, and folk. I have way too many favorite groups to mention, but I selected the Mediaeval Baebes for my profile music because they make heavenly and evocative music and project an amazing concept of mysterious and enchanting femininity.

Movies:

Transamerica, Paris is Burning, Snatch, All That Jazz, Paper Moon, Norma Rae, Patton (a contradiction?), Holy Grail, Best in Show, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Kinky Boots, 84 Charing Cross Road, Devil Wears Prada, and Harry Potter.

Television:

PBS news programming, Nova, Daily Show, Colbert Report.

Books:

Flashman series, Harry Turtledove, and a myriad of books about history and politics.

Heroes:

FDR, Lincoln, JFK, Freud, Bach, Beethoven, and Haydn.