What pleases me are sunny beaches and rolling waves, sunrises and sunsets, seafood and pasta, old friends and new friends, and listening to vintage jazz. Living a life of fun makes me smile. Add a man who makes me laugh and I'm a very happy gal.
I treat people the way I want to be treated - with respect, understanding, and appreciation. If you are interested and willing to look, you will find me positive, friendly, upbeat, and almost always smiling. When you smile back, I will know that you understand how unique I am.
I stay healthy, physically and mentally, because it's important. I eat healthy and work out 4-5 times per week. My passion is wine (red wine is good for your heart, you know) and a pomegranate martini every now and then. I say, "Keep those antioxidants coming!"
Sometimes, I am the typical transplanted New Yorker, now living in paradise, who can be blunt, too direct, and yes, even too honest. But if you'll take the time to peel away the protective shell of the Bronx, you will find a tender and compassionate soul underneath who deeply cares. The man I choose to hang around with needs to know how to crack through the shell and discover the sweet "nut" inside.

Here is more insight to think about before you contact me:
* I travel frequently for work but it's mainly during the week.
* I am passionate about what I do for a living.
* I believe that a loving and solid relationship is about being accepted for who you are with no desire to change the other person.
* I am really 53 years old, but this site wouldn't allow me to change my posted age.
* Please do not contact me if you are still in a relationship with your ex, significant other, girlfriend or living with your mother.
* Please do not contact me if your posted photo is older than 2 years or if you have misrepresented your weight, height, and work status.
* If you need an overabundance of meds to stay "sane", call your shrink and not me as I've given up trying to analyze why a man of 55 still lives with his mother.

Take a moment and read the following quotes. It will give you further insight as to who I am.
"Integrity: A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." - Jackie Robinson
"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly." - Rose Franken

If you're interested, write to me and send me your favorite quotes.

A glass of wine, and wanting to turn my cellphone off, or at least on "vibrate" ;-)
Interesting conversation, not an interview.