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- I am:
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Man
- Seeking a:
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Woman
- Age:
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79
- Country:
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Usa
- State:
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California
- City:
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san diego
- Zip:
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92020
- Name:
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Ron
- My Match Description:
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I am not looking for a trophy wife or house keeper...I am looking for partner aged 58 to 68...college education....fair in English...and interested in learning and personal growth.
One of my favorite saying is "if life is not an adventure it is nothing at all". I spent 25 years driving race cars....I trained and raised horses and competed in barrel racing etc.....I do bungy jumping and sky diving (tandem).....I still play basketball in the Senior Olympics....I work out everyday. .I have lived,worked, or traveled in over 30 countries. I just returned from 7 months of teaching in China. I wasn't able to complete the school year due to a natural disaster that hit southern and central China in February. I was in the worst area and ended up back in the states with torn muscle and intestinal infection. I am just fine now and back on the basketball court..
My life work has been in researching and exploring human potential. I have taught all grades from lst grade through graduate school. I was one of the pioneers in developing simulation gaming as a teaching method and wrote the textbook used in many colleges and universities.. I was the director of experiential learning at the Institute of Research and Services , University of Alabama for 10years. The last 5 years I directed a project call Project Outer Limits: to research and explore the outer regions of human potential This project changed my life as I became aware that there may not be any limits....if there are they're not outer but inner.
I studied piano at the mcPhail school of music in Minneapolis for 8 years....started when I was 7 years old. As a teen ager I was asked to take second piano in their symphony orchestra . I refused because at the time the only music that appealed to me was pop, jazz, and especially boogie woogie. I am afraid I have pretty well lost my talents....what you don't use you lose. Many things interest me. One time I wrote a list of 30 things I like to do. I have an interest in art and literature.
Background
I was born in an area of Minneapolis that was referred to as slums or skid row. Today we have other terms like Ghettos. My father went to a one room school in South Dakota and never graduated from 8th grade. My mother dropped out as sophomore in Minneapolis high school. To move from that subculture to the sub cultural I am in today is a long amazing story. But it could only happen because of key people that came into my life and took a personal interest in me. Each of these key people lead me in to a new subculture. Adapting to these new cultures and learning how to function successfully was a challenge. It was like whittling on a square peg to fit it into a round hole. In a sense my life has been a series of cross cultural experiences. This is why, as a teacher, I was so willing to take time to help those that I perceived having trouble fitting into the world around them. So I have taken advantage of opportunities to experience cross cultural differences on a global scale. . I not only hope to help students learn, but share with them a greater understanding of our culture and learn more about their culture.
I hope this will give you some insight as to who I am and where I am coming from. Of course I could write a book about my life process. Some years ago one of my boys said, "Dad you ought to write a biography".....the . youngest son piped up with."no one would believe it anyway."
RON
- Body type:
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Athletic
- Height:
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5' 9"
- Eyes:
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Blue
- Hair:
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White/gray
- Ethnicity:
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Caucasian (white)
- Smoking:
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No
- Drinking:
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No
- Living Situation:
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Alone
- Social Setting:
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I'll tell you later
- TV Watching:
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Movies, Documentaries
- Languages:
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English
- Marital Status:
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Widowed
- Have Kids:
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Yes - but not at home
- Want (more) kids:
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No
- Education:
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Post-Graduate
- Employment Status:
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Retired
- Occupation:
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Education / Academic Research
- Income:
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I'll tell you later
- Religion:
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Spiritual but not religious
- Attend Services:
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I'll tell you later
- Political Views:
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Liberal
- Sense of Humor:
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Friendly, Clever / Quick Witted
- Interests:
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Health / Fitness, Playing Sports, Playing Music, Gaming, Computers / Internet, Travel, Arts, Community Service, Dancing, Family, Movies, Listening to Music, Reading, Theater
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