Interests... {I hope there is room} I'll start with a former interest, that was cut short,(damned insurance companies are sneeky!!!) I hang-glided for a while... loved the exhileration... the butt-clenching-terror when you first take flight... the euphoric sensations as you bank, and find yourself riding the wind... then that same.. even more inTENse, butt-clenching, as you realise that now you HAVE to land this thing!!!! They caught me.. So a clause was added to my policy... I simply took up my old athletic passion, {along with the arts, and wood which, at this time were both full-blown-passions... (this was before I combined the two)}... I went back to free-climbing. I was once asked why I would climb up a 300 foot rock face without ropes... I really was unable to answer right away... after scanning my memory it came to me ... "It's because I'm afraid of heights" is what I said in reply. lol It sounds crazy.. but I am still afraid of heights.. which makes me a damned good free climber. Reading has been a passion since earliest recollection, as is writing. At 13 I won my first of 3 music scholarships... learned to read and write music... and wrote my first song... which was more or less a poem, put to a three chord progression {the three chords that I had learned by watching,during rehearsals, the guitar players in the band I had formed, }... I suppose it falls under the characterist, "country tune"...{no ex wives, no dogs, or horses.. though there was an eagle mentioned, no pick-up trucks} I love to fish, hike, sled, and watch the sun set. I love nature.. period. I have a thirst for information that has not subsided since I was around 10 yrs old... so I read .. pretty much religiously... I can't really go too long, without some influx of info. I love poetry, have read pretty much all the classics...{am reading hugos' les miserables, again,and La Morte D' Arthur, at the moment} My favorite poet is Ben Jonson, {one of willy shakespears' buddies}... I love wood... and the beautiful things that can be createdwith, and by it. Though rarely is the time I partake... I do enjoy a glass of wine, wrapped in warm fluffy bath-robes, curled up in front of a fire place... ...or sitting and standing{I stand alot]... around a camp-fire... watching the flick-licking flames reaching, and laughing at the outrageous banter that ensues at those times when good people gather, remotely, beneath the sky, and share a few beverages, and feastings, where the monkeys on ones back, are left far behind in the city. {I personally live far from the city lights} I love sitting on the shore of that greatest of lakes, as the sun sets... love watching the stars blink on, one at a time... till the glassy water reflects the trillions of blinking-suns and the Aurora Borealis does her dance accross the night-sky. I love discovery, and adventure.. challenge, and my country. most of all... I love to see my Princess-brat smile...(which thankfully, is not all that hard to do) and love knowing that the other Princess...{the brats' artsy-fartsy older sister}...is on course and progressing at that incredible rate that defies logic.