Greetings and Salutations!
I'm a 41 year old male, married, living in the midwest. I don't work full time, so I have a bit of freedom to scan the culture from the sidelines, and do follow current events as well as history. I have been a fan of the written word for years, and find the "library of teh Interent" to be beyond my wildest imagination! I have been on the Internet since 1995, and have floated around many sites since then, but generally visit a few news and hobby sites and those like ASSTR and Nifty, as well as a few more focused 'theme' sites.

I have a happy marriage (third time is the charm?) and have been so for about 10 years. We are open, but (as seems to be the commonplace) she's much more possesive than I am or ever will be. I feel that she's an adult and as long as there is no threat to us, she is free to be herself. It's not a directly mutual reflection, but we have had some fun (and interesting) encounters with others, and both have had more "wild times" before, but I just wish we could share more of our lives and esperiances with others. (I guess that's what memories are made for... )

I have just recently began to feel "old" (no, not "old" like I no longer care who's on the top 40 radio or care what's in style - I lost that at age 20), but meaning that my peer group now feels like what I percieved my parent's peer group to be many years ago. I don't call it a "midlife" thing, just an awareness of the reality that surrounds me. My wife is probably even more accepting of this than I- she still has birthday parties, and she is a few years older.

Living is a conservative and smaller town than I was brought up in (by choice - I do so muck love the open roads and clear air and eye contact when speaking) , it's so hard to have conversations that range across levels of intelligence and morality. And it's just hard to get a "reality check" when you are not the dominant partner, either.

Yea, I know it's a rambling introduction, but I just wanted to stop on by and say hi.
BTW, I see some crude and sophomoric sillyness here, but also a fair glimmer of genuine attempts at intelligent conversaton. I'll avoid the 'smut' and concentrate on the sensual (all five of them) and the intellectual (the sixth sense?)

Have a great spring and do take some time to listen to the birds... .

BND