I have been in the travel industry since 1955. My interests are my work, gardening, music (listening) reading. I am married to Original Wife and we have two children, three grandchildren. I like Gore Vidal, Margaret Maron, Josephine Tey, P.D. James, Harry Potter, Sue Grafton, John Fowles, Mozart, Prokofiev, Barber, Bach, Verdi, Heloise, Miss Manners, Dilbert, Hagar, cornbread, mustard greens, buttermilk, almonds, salmon, vanilla ice cream, rice pudding, jeans and khakis, mock turtlenecks, SAS shoes, plumerias, four o'clocks, Turk's cap, daisies, Law & Order, The Practice, Six Feet Under, West Wing, Susan Sarandon, Stockard Channing, Maggie Smith.