shared interests can be a good place to start ...

i enjoy music performance (i play keyboards, clarinet, saxophone & flute, am a conductor and arranger, and prefer jazz or classical) (duets, anyone?), golf (esp.jan-feb vacations in the south), cooking, entertaining, haute cuisine, concerts, art institute-galleries-museums, theater, movies, tv dramas, physical fitness (6-7days/wk treadmill/weights/calisthenics/yoga -- now down to 150# -- this getting older stuff isn't for wimps), technology (how did we live w/o the internet?), armchair philosophy/meaningful conversation/reading aloud as a romantic activity

i believe in (and seek someone into) healthy and balanced mind/body/emotions/spirit-ethics-morals/aesthetics ... i would enjoy someone who'd introduce or re-involve me in tennis, swimming, sailing, scuba, dancing, equestrian, book discussion groups, adult education, "living green", volunteerism, bridge/poker, her favorite things ...

education and careers involve(d) music, teaching, computers, finance, economics and international business (no, really, i CAN make up my mind, and i CAN hold a job); i lived in montreal for a year for a company, but still haven't seen paris (will you be the one to show me yours?)

i'd be comfortable with any kind of get-together that gave us an opportunity to find out about each other