I think all the important issues would be solved if everyone stopped thinking money and materialistic gains are more important than making the world better. So I would say greed is the root of all that is wrong, and therefore the biggest issue. Even equality is denied because someone is making more money as long as its unequal.

What would you do with a billion dollars?

I would seriously give the greatest portion away, people with money have problems too, they're just bigger problems. My families and favorite charities would benefit. I'd like to think I could do some good.

Have you ever quit a job purely because of dissatisfaction?.

I would spend 250 million on a housing initiative and get architects suppliers and local governments to contribute, and build tens or hundreds of thousands of homes/homesteads/dwellings worldwide to be given away. Taxes to be paid from trust in perpetuity.
I would buy several blocks surrounding me for 20 million and offer free houses to friends and artists and musicians and actors and filmmakers and writers that I like.
10 million to pay off all the debt of relatives and friends and pay off their mortgages and several private gifts.
200 million to vaccinate against preventable childhood illnesses.
50 million to the American Visionary Art Museum.
250 million to build and fund a small American Folk Art and Craft museum.
50 million for an 8mm and Super8 film archive.
20 million to the library of congress film archive.
100 million for an agency to assist women and LGBT refugees.
The rest if there was any I would spend on a whim.
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Oops sorry hon I was multitasking and took too long-lol.
Next! :)

If you could live anywhere...where would it be and why?

Right where I am living now.
It is a quiet country town yet close to Philadelphia, Atlantic City and New York.
I always used to drive past the cottage I live in now and knew I would live there some day. It feels like I am truly at home here.


What was the last turning point in your life? How did it affect you?

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The alpha wolf
Because I'm intelligent and strong
I certainly have an alpha personality
I take care of my pack
I'll pee on ya leg in a heartbeat (territorial)
I'm social and I love to romp and play
But can be serious and get down to business
I could go on but you get the point

What animal would you least like to be, if you had to be an animal

NO. Nobody likes a snitch.

If someone you could trust told you, you could become a millionaire in One year, But... to get the money, you had to become homeless for One year, take with you only two pairs of clothes, some personal items, and ten dollars, ask no friends or relatives for anything, you could not have your job, and had to figure out a way to survive (a homeless shelter, panhandling, abandoned car, or building etc). Would you do it?

Ireland, I'm actually going there this summer.

What would you do for a Klondike Bar? :chocolate:

Get in the car, drive to the store...oh wait, get dressed, get out $20.oo, get in the car, drive to the store. Fill the cart, unwrap one on the way to the counter, get in the car, unwrap another one, then come home and get a bowlfull of them.

What you buy with it if you found $100.oo blowing down the street.

Brilliant re Ireland ... if you have the opportunity, let me be a tour guide for a day in Belfast. I work in London but I'm a Belfast boy (born there and lived there for over 30 of my 35 years) and back there every few weeks. Most tourists / visitors from overseas do Dublin (over-rated city) and the west coast (beautiful scenery and great people) but ignore the harsher, northern part which has beauty, harshness and tears mixed together.

If you do intend to, or would like to, go north, let me know.

I'm a teacher; and I love it :). But if we can't include our own jobs, then a librarian, history professor, or museum curator. Come to think of it, I might still be all those things ;).

What languages do you speak? Have you ever taken lessons or taught yourself a language just for fun?

What languages do you speak? Have you ever taken lessons or taught yourself a language just for fun?[/QUOTE]

I only speak English fluently. However, I took two years of German in high school and I still remember some of it now and then. What's funny is that I'll try to think in German but then it tries to come out in Spanish!

I only speak English fluently. However, I took two years of German in high school and I still remember some of it now and then. What's funny is that I'll try to think in German but then it tries to come out in Spanish!

Q: Do you like karaoke? If so, have you ever been brave enough to do it? [/QUOTE]

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LOve to watch, never been brave or drunk enough to do it.

What is a fear you have?

The fear I've had every day for 13 years: fear of doing something one day that starts my kids on the road to Jerry Springer-ville.

Where do you go when you need to be alone?

Assuming that said mall had any store to choose from, that's easy: a bookstore, a music store (both for CD's and sheet music), Lush or B&BW, and a kitchen gadget store. Then to a great restaurant in said mall (sometimes they do exist), to peruse my bookstore findings.

What is one song you could (or have) listened to again, and again?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZgUN2TGKS0:hangloose:

What song can you not stand to hear one more time?

If you had this chance, without affecting your life today, what would you take back or do over?

I have one Tattoo I would never have done.
Can we say laser?:blink:

What has been the happiest time period of your life so far and why?

What has been the happiest time period of your life so far and why?

I have to say this one is heading in that direction.
I am surrounded by love. Not of the romantic kind but spiritual kind.
I am accepted for who I am with no conditions.
My house is a home and i love being here.
I have more time again for me.
I will see where the present takes me.

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Same question...

the happiest time in my life is something weird so maybe it doesnt fit the specs of the question the way other answers might. it happened a few days ago when i was in the middle of a deep hurt about missin my dad and missin some really important people and it sort of broke into my head that i was gonna survive and everything was gonna be ok. i dont know if it qualifies as the "happiest" time of my entire life or not. sure is the happiest thing on the horizon. i'm feeling pretty positive about actually finally felling like i'm gonna make it and things will be fine eventually.


because it's on my mind i'll ask this: what face do you wish you could see right now, regardless of the response you might/might not get?

My grandmother. She finally has hearing aids so I'd like to see her and have a proper conversation (she was too stubborn before).

If you could go anywhere in the world, but you had to go on your own, no one else could come, how long would you take for this holiday of yours?

I'd take 3 weeks. I'd need at least that long to get in, settle, enjoy and get past the I miss my life part to really relax.

If for a day you couldn't tell a lie, things popped out all honest and unfiltered, who would you choose to spend the day with?

My friend Kim that passed away in 1997.

If you could change one thing about your appearance, what would it be?

My hair...

If you knew voting for a specific candidate this year in the elections would change many lives in a very positive way would you vote for them even if you personally disagreed with all other aspects of their campaign?