About Me: I like new experiences, and I'm interested in learning new things. I like to correspond with other persons who have insatiable curiosity and fascination with the world around them. I study ancient history, particularly Ancient Mediterranean (Roman, Greece, ancient Near East and Egypt), also world history, environmental history and Mediterranean archaeology.

A few of my Favorite Things, in no particular order: travel, literature, learning, research, writing, photography, ancient history, especially ancient Greece, Egypt and Rome, genealogy, historic houses, ceramic art, pecan pie, dragonfruit, a good ghost story, thunderstorms, natural history museums, music, farming, October, pumpkin spice everything, beautiful corn, the sound and smell of the sea, Indian Food, Chopin, cats, horses, Impressionism, tea of all sorts, art museums, the color and smell of copper, black star sapphires, Leonardo da Vinci, gardening, cinnamon hot cocoa, road trips, the desert at sunset, London, amaryllis, Kurt Vonnegut novels, cashmere sweaters, fountain pens, lavender, The Tiffin Room at the Raffles Hotel, Thai silk, Oscar Wilde ("You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."), the colors oxblood red and chocolate brown, the California coast, in all its glory, chai, orchids, Thai food, New York City... and life.