I have a great 13 year old boy and I own two businesses. One is a translation agency and the other is a home health care business. The one picture of me is in my basement office at my old house that I built with my ex-wife and the other was taken of me on one of the horses on my mom's farm. My hair is not buzzed anymore like in the picture - I'll post a new one here pretty soon. Things are cooking pretty well with the home health care and plodding along okay with the translations, and prospects are good, and besides that I just started a new outside job part-time at a Lowe's store. It's fun to work in a hardware store! So I'm hoping for a bit of extra money and to also increase the profitability of the other two businesses. It would be nice to find a partner to share things with.

I was divorced in June of 2005 and after that I moved out of the house that I had built for my former wife and me on land carved out of my family's farm. These days, I'm hanging my hat in an extra house on that farm, a horse farm, with my adopted brother. I hope and expect to build another house in the future. I might build one on my family's land again but part of me wants to do something entirely new and different. I like the idea of having a cozy place with lots of comfortable places inside, and places to put things, and with lots of room to cook. I've also toyed with the idea of getting a van with an office, a bed, a satellite dish and a laptop and traveling around. I have my son on the weekends and during that time he usually stay's down the lane at my mom's house, where he has lots of toys, and we do some work on the farm and have fun doing other things together. We made a chocolate cake from scratch in mid-December for the dessert competition at his (and my former) Boy Scout Troop's annual dinner

I like tree swings and paper boats, ice skating and horses and bicycles and mechanics - intimacy too! Laughing and practicing sensitivity, and being honest and open to service to others - those things are important. I love restaurants and dancing and concerts, cooking and coffee houses and chocolate malts. I like to go to Barking Spider Tavern and to Corky & Lenny's, but don't go to either place often.

Just recently I made a list of things that I like about myself, and a second list of things that I don't like about myself. So I aim to try NOT do what's on the one list and try TO do what's on the other! I love the Tao Te Ching, I Ching and I've read Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, The Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, Siddartha and other books by Herman Hesse, The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, the Kabir Book of ecstatic love poems, versions by Robert Bly, lots of science fiction including The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov and some C.S. Lewis and Heinlein and others. In high school I read More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon and La Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Mallory, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck and The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, and other books, and a couple of years ago I read Cold Mountain which has been popular recently. I loved Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott and The Lord of the Rings triligy by Tolkien and all of Ernest Hemingway's books, Sinclair Lewis and lots of other books by others that just don't come to mind just now. Oh, Shogun by James Clavell and I like Kurt Vonnegut's books. Slapstick was fun and did you ever hear of Kilgore Trout? I loved the Star Wars movies too and the Lord of the Rings movies were outstanding. Anyhow, so much for the books and movies for now. Sometimes it's best to just go outside and enjoy the weather, climb trees and do whatever. I love picnics too.

So I have fixed bicycles, cleaned stalls, ridden horses a lot; I put a used engine and a lot of other work into my used '63 Rambler Classic Wagon when I lived in Fall City Washington near Seattle in the early 80's; I used to love to tinker with that Ramber. I think I must have been familiar with every sound that car made and I noticed any changes. While I lived in Fall City, I ran supplies to Goldmyer Hot Springs near North Bend, WA. Inbetween North Bend and Fall City was Snoqualmie, where that strange TV series Twin Peaks was supposed to have been located. I used to visit Snoqualmie Falls from time to time. In Fall City I lived in the Cascade Foothills in an old workshop on a nice lady's farm where she manufactured food dehydrators and wrote books about herbs and tended her garden. Her husband had been one of the early settlers on the hill I lived on. She often invited me in for dinner and I paid my rent by pruning the raspberry bushes, fixing the truck and other equipment, milking the goats, catching the chickens (the wilder ones like the Banties would often dig out of the fenced-in area that I kept trying to fix) and other farm things. The Banties used to love to get out and perch on the branches of trees in the woods at dusk. I'd try to catch them but I couldn't get near them until they did that. But as soon as they had perched, I would be able to climb the tree they were in and they wouldn't fly away, so then I could bring them back home. I would also haul any trash that hadn't been recycled up to the dump on the mountainside in the pickup. That area I lived in was just a few miles from Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascade Mountains.

I love to explore new places with friends, and to make new friends. I speak Spanish and a bit of Arabic and can get along in French a little, and I can communicate somewhat with speakers of other Romance languages because of the Spanish and French that I know.

I used to garden a lot with my grandfather, who grew up on a farm, and after he graduated from his own one-room school, he taught grades 1-6 himself for a year until going to medical school at Starling Medical School, later purchased by OSU. Back to gardening, I love to garden and hope to put one in again this year with corn, cucumbers, peppers and melons and GOOD tomatoes (the un-shippable kind).

Anyway, if you'd like to talk more, I'd love to hear from you!   Send me a message!

Profession: Business owner - translation services and home hea
Interests:  cooking, cultural events, outdoor activities, picnics