25 Things...

Since I've been tagged twice now, and I'm refusing to do stuff on Facebook that gets me more exposed, I'll put my 25 here. If you are reading this, consider yourself tagged and find somewhere to post your 25 things -- or email them to me; I'm bored.

1. I've dug up dinosaur bones.

2. I was born in Silverton, Oregon.

3. I was adopted when I was 6 months old.

4. I danced with Fritz Leiber and got drunk with Harlan Ellison.

5. I am addicted to murder mysteries, especially Charlaine Harris and Robert Parker.

6. I have always owned cats, who do not like me, and have never owned a dog, who all seem to universally love me. I have determined that if I get another pet, it will be a dog. Perhaps a small one.

7. I love giving things away. I want to win the lottery so I can stand on a street corner and hand people $100 bills for an hour. With an armed guard at my side. (Hey, I'm a realist.)

8. I owned my first home at age 56. At age 66 my new home I am having built will be my third house I have owned. Time to put down some roots.

9. I am 100% in favor of gay marriage, and 110% in favor of love.

10. I am extremely liberal.

11. I played the cello until my early 20s, and was principal cellist of the Portland Jr. Symphony

12. I played the piano until my early 20s, and was never principal pianist of anything.

13. I sing in the shower, loudly, and love the sound of my voice. When I am not in the shower, I do not love the sound of my voice.

14. I harbor a secret desire to act in a play, any play.

15. I spend too much time alone, and hunger for the contact of like minds. I pretend that the people in the computer are real.

16. I have no boobs.

17. I own 28 bookshelves full of books. They are mostly science fiction, mysteries, and adventure. I have ever book Robert Ludlum has written, as well as Robin Cook and Dean Kuntz.

18. Nothing provides more pleasure than a quiet warm day at the garden, sitting peacefully in the shade, writing or sketching.

19. I have swam in the ocean nude, and sat in a hot springs at midnight in the mountains, staring at the stars.

20. I was in San Francisco for the entire Summer of Love, and in retrospect would have to say it was not so lovely as people would like you to think.

21. I once at breakfast with Janis Joplin.

22. I shook hands with Muhammed Ali and chatted for a minute. He was charming, intelligent and delightful.

23. I have 5 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

24. My adopted mother was a suffragette.

25. My adopted father was born in Norway. I grew up eating Norwegian food except for lutefisk, which to this day I have still managed to avoid. I have however eaten grasshoppers and snails, which I think is homage enough to strange gustatory experiences.