Date women from United States / California / Ojai, 54 year old

Date someone special from Ojai, United States. Easy going creative working artist. love the outdoors, quiet time in nature for clearing mind and heart and finding connection to the source for inspiration. Healing touch, finding gratitude in simple things in life. Open to exploring unknown adventures of life. Live, love, dance. Personal chef trade has become my specialty for group retreats and private weddings etc.. I am good at coordinating events which takes a lot of multitasking skills when necessary, but when I am off duty I am very relaxed and fully enjoy free time with no particular plans or schedule. Hot springs, massage and creating functional art. I am told I always appear very calm and relaxed even in the most hectic working conditions when I am cooking for groups on a schedule. I don't find freaking out to be very helpful in times like these. Grateful to bring joy to people and laughter brings lightness to any situation and puts things in perspective. Life is too short to waste being unhappy. I am also a caregiver and enjoy time with my beautiful 90 year young mother as well as my son who is 20 and well on his way to becoming a chef in his own right. Still good friends with my ex and his wife has become very dear to me as well. Life is good. The more I am in gratitude, the better life gets. Planning on spending more time at the beach this summer......

Meet a soulmate from Ojai, United States. I hope to have an equally honest, caring, giving and adventureous relationship based upon trust, admiration and respect for each We should both be confident in our individual strengths and support each other in our weaknesses. I like men who are happy and sure of themselves. A woman is not the center of their world but a very important and intimate part of it! I would like to also start a relationship based upon friendship first (not always possible!).
I love being outside in jeans but I like to get dressed up, too! Wine tasting, concerts, sight seeing or just sitting by the fireplace- it's all good!
Photos are: My daughter's wedding- May 16, 2009 (walking her down the aisle with her dad and my family); drinking mixed drinks in the back of a pick-up in Houma, La for Mardi Gras (Feb 09); 2 of me on my horse; Crater Lake in Oregon (Oct 08), Lake Tahoe (Oct 11); my new puppy- Hondo (Oct 11); and wine tasting in a limo to Paso Robles for my Mom's 85th birthday (Aug 11).