Hello, and welcome. My site is divided into two main parts--Chez Sher, which is my part of the site, and Muffin's Bide-a-Wee, which is my English Bulldog's part of the site. If you're here to explore my part of the site, read on. If you're looking for Muffin's site, click on her link to the right.

In the Beginning, as it were, this is a picture of moi and if you already don't like what you see, you don't have to waste time going any further. If you aren't outta here yet however, there is more information about me at the About Me link to the left and more photos of me at the Photos link. Other links contain a description of the type of man I would like to find (or at least a description of the ones I DON'T care to find), and a page devoted to my wierd, wacky, and sometimes off-putting philosophical thoughts and ramblings and my take on various social issues of our times. There are also pages devoted to pictures of my children and grandchildren, my tributes to the art of Edward Hopper and Wassily Kandinsky, the section of my site devoted to the aforementioned Muffin's Bide-a-Wee, and pages containing links to my favorite graphic web artists and my favorite canine places.

As a background note by way of explaining how and why I put this site together, gosh darnit, I find myself single again at a fairly advanced age (50's), living in a small town where I (1) don't meet many unmarried men and (2) don't have much in common with the ones I do meet, and also find myself not totally unhappy with that situation, but willing to change it if the right person happened to come into my life. So... I decided to try a little computer magic to explore some of the matchmaking sites and services on the web. After filling out tediously long and sometimes silly questionnaires at various matchmaker sites I found, I decided to try to put what seemed to me to be the most matchmaking-pertinent biographical information into a narrative form here in a personal homepage. Since then, I have looked around at the personal ads of others and at what others have done with their homepages and, although I don't WANT to be preachy and pedantic and I DO realize that brevity is the soul of wit, my site has sort of grown like kudzu as I've been unable to resist (1) incorporating some of those ideas into my format, (2) using it as a rant-catcher as exasperation with social issues bubbles over into words, and (3) as I’ve continually thought of possibly essential information to add to the page. No, of course it’s not and if I told you everything there was to know right here and now, what would we talk about later? Also, I don't want to give the impression that I already have everything figured out and that there's nothing left for me to explore or discover. I may have been around long enough to have decided that when I go to the grocery store I'm going to buy Kraft mayonnaise and Dove soap, but if someone comes up with a new mayonnaise or soap product that sounds attractive or superior to me, I'll very likely give it a try. And lastly, although this part of the site is strictly about me, it's here not as an egotistical monument to my questionably wonderful self, but to give prospective romantic matches as solid an idea as I can of what I'm about and what I'm like so they can have enough information at their disposal to decide whether they are compatible with me or not. I'm only looking for one person for whom the information I've put here will be meaningful. I've tried to be as honest and forthright as I can and to hide as little as possible in the way of failings and shortcomings so that if you think you are that person, there will be as few unpleasant surprises as possible later. And let's drag it kicking and screaming out into the open right now, one of the things I am--pleasant or unpleasant, depending on your pov--is pretty darn wordy. So... if you are here to explore in my part of the site, use the link buttons at left and right to discover the good, the bad, and the verbose of me or anything else that's available for discovery here.

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