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About Me

I am a collector of fine books, jazz and selected classical music and a consumer of an occassional dark beer. I reside in "Utopia on the Bay" aka Fairhope, AL. I enjoy walking along the Bay, coffee at Cafe Amore/Coffee Loft and piano jazz at Mateer's and the Grand Hotel. Travel is a passion. Spring/Summer/Fall '07 - NYC, Edinburgh/Oxford/London, class reunion Athens(GA), Provence/Zug/Huemoz.Univ of S Ala 1975/Univ of Ga 1987/CFA Institute 1992/Swiss Finance Institute 1998.

My Interests

Travel, jazz, architecture, sculpture, philosophy & German. Favorite getaways: Arizona, Savannah, Asheville, New York, Switzerland.

I'd like to meet:

My journey: Gulf Shores, Mobile, Athens (GA), Ponte Vedra Bch, Lausanne, Vero Bch/Stuart, Gulf Shores, Fairhope...............................

Music:

Bill Evans, Metheny, Yellow Jackets, Noel Freidline, Jobim, Eliane Elias and Miles. Local musicians Jeannie Perkins (Grand Hotel),John Wynn (Mateers) and Will Kimbrough.

Movies:

Three Days of the Condor, The Terminator, Grosse Pointe Blank, About a Boy, Something's Gotta Give, Kate and Leopold, The Bourne Identity, Stranger than Fiction.FAVORTIES ACT*: John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Pierce Brosnan, Audrey Hepburn.

Television:

Deutsche-Welle, The Unit.

Books:

Just finished "Lump and Picasso" by Life photographer David Douglas Duncan. Started "The Tapestry" by Edith Schaeffer and Leonardo DaVinci "Hights of the Mind" by Charles Nicholl.

Heroes:

Interesting people: Abraham Kuyper, Ravi Zacharias, Benjamin Graham. Heroes: Daniel, Zwingli, Jefferson (sadly a deist). I like dead heroes as they are not likely to fail me.

My Blog

Edinburgh - Thirty six hours

After finishing my stay at Oxford I celebrated with walking, food, shopping and drink in Edinburgh, Scotland. This city has wonderful sense of history, style and erudition. This first visi...
Posted by Traveller on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:01:00 PST

St Aldates Church - Oxford

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit historic St Aldates Church-Oxford University. This is one of two chuches that the staff/educators of the Ravi Zacharias Apologetics team had ...
Posted by Traveller on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:30:00 PST

Dads Who have Only Girls

Fathers can have a particularly powerful influence on their daughters' professional success because they provide role models and maybe even explicit advice for thriving in the still largely mascul...
Posted by Traveller on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:32:00 PST

Finding Fairhope - Best Fairhope Blog

Do you want to know more about Fairhope? How about musings on film, art, education and things political? The best place for all of that is Finding Fairhope, a blog hosted by one of our loc...
Posted by Traveller on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:19:00 PST

A week at Oxford - England

I wish that things would slow down so I can have time to get excited about my upcoming stay at Oxford. I have never been to England much less to the community of Oxford. I have seen pictur...
Posted by Traveller on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:37:00 PST

Charles Koch - A leader

He may be worth $12 billion but he eats in his company's cafeteria, unassumingly queuing in line behind some of the 80,000 people he employs. You've never heard of him or his company-it's private.&nbs...
Posted by Traveller on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:39:00 PST

Most Expensive Living Artists- Jasper Johns and others

The top artists (not necessarily the best!) B
Posted by Traveller on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:06:00 PST

Entreprenuer - Peter de Savary

My main home is a 600-year-old farmhouse in Gloucestershire, two hours west of London in the UK.What do you try to create in a property?The property has always to be soothing; unusual and creative; so...
Posted by Traveller on Wed, 30 May 2007 03:36:00 PST

SKYE - Appaloosa

I am high on SKYE! (not Sweetman-fyi)Sunday TV5 - Lemonde I saw an exciting new artist. One of the songs she performed on Lemonde was just her and her guitar (a wonderful guitarist) and vocally ...
Posted by Traveller on Mon, 28 May 2007 02:13:00 PST

Gotham Hall - Reuters Reception (NYC)

Kudos to Reuters for sponsoring a SUPER Tuesday night at Gotham Hall. It was night filled with terrific music, and never ending foods and beverages, all set in a ambience that is one of a kind in the ...
Posted by Traveller on Fri, 04 May 2007 06:01:00 PST