1. I descend from Western European Stock. Both family lines have been in North America over 12 generations. So I have insipid WASP roots.

2. I am the oldest of 4 boys. Yet I am the shortest in height, which made my younger brothers very pleased.

3. Both parents are alive and doing well; I have never seem them fight.

4. I collect rubber stamps

5. I also collect art work from the Pacific Northwest.

6. Coconut makes me ill.

7. Tea is my drink; green, white, oolong, or red/black; I love it so.

8. I try to stretch every day as I am the only man in my family without a bad back (yet).

9. I enjoy Opera. My favorite opera is “Dialogues of the Carmelites”.

10. My favorite composer is Mahler; we have the same birthday, 100 years apart.

11. I went to four universities: I am board certified in Psychiatry.

12. I have gone through both Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis.

13. After 40 years of living in the Midwest, I live in Phoenix Arizona.

14. I take medicine for high blood pressure and high cholesterol/triglycerides.

15. I have never smoked tobacco or marijuana.

16. I hope I never stop learning and growing.

17. My fears - tarantulas, angry crowds, nuclear weopons, being sued, and heights.

18. I love to read. I would choose a book over most actitivities most of the time.

19. Things I haven’t ever done (so far) - “been with a woman’, marry, been arrested, or hit anyone.

20. I love to garden; growing heirloom tomatoes is my favorite. There is nothing as good as a home grown tomato - except a home grown melon.

21. Some of my favorite things - thunderstorms, a back stratch, hot water, noodles, and something else which will remain blank lest my relatives read this.

22. I continue to work on the advice “Be Not Afraid”.

23. I never heard of blogs until 2006. Now I am ‘quite into it’ and am glad for the opportunity to write and ‘meet others’ through their writing.

24. I have your basic ‘ADHD” wiring. It normally doesn’t cause troubles - until I started living with Someone. It causes friction at home

25. I am Catholic.

26. I am left handed; but can do most things right handed if needs be.

27. I have a small hump at the base of my neck.

28. I can’t operate the home entertainment system, with its four or five remotes

29. I am suspicious of technology in general.

30. I am aggravated by ignorance, rude people, and stupidity.

31. I make my own Hawaiin style shirts.

32. I stutter if I talk too fast.

33. I can speak some German; I can do some American Sign Language (ASL)

34. I like hot and spicy foods; ground pepper goes on nearly everything.

35. My favorite hot sauce is “Melinda’s’

 36. I want to meet everybody on my blog list.

37. I want to see Ireland before I die.