I like poetry and write a lot of poetry to my friends and email it to them. I have written a book called FACES OF LIFE which tellls about my travels around the world and Love, God, Nature, and the Indigenous peoples. I love art, crafts, dance, music-like Jazz, funky music, classical music,. I love cartooning, drawing, painting in water colors, collaging, doing scenes in paper and magazine cut-outs.I don't like people who fart constantly, throw out Phelgm, shit all the time and pee all the time! These are disgusting habits & they have no manners and are peasants! I like fine clothing, getting dressed up for dinner, wering beaded clothes, and snazzy black & white blouses. I feel elegant! but I like my faded jeans too! Marion Da Silva

I don't wish to speak to pen pals with any photos, or just say Hi, or have a dog, or flowers or other strange things in their photo or no photo! Also, for those who post their motorbike or something like that, I don't wish to speak with them. I like friendly pen pals who post their photos & want to learn something about me and my country. so SAY SOMETHING OR DON"T POST A BLANK PICTURE! I do not wish to have folks who are in their TEENS  to their35TO POST ME and also DON"T LIKE PEOPLE WHO POST and SAY NOTHING. THEY ARE NOT COGNIZANT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE I AM HERE TO TALK NOT FLIRT! WANT PENPALS TO WRITE BACK TO ME OR I AM WASTING MY TIME!! POST ME WHEN YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SOMETHING I"VE SHARED WITH YOU OK?! OR DON"T BOTHER SAYING HI_ & WASTING  MY GOOD TIME BY POSTING TO YOU!

none Don't speak Spanish!

I love to sing, do Zumba with Cuban music, and other island music as I have been to the islands-Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Cozumel, Cancun . Love to dance & learn to do the salsa. Watched a movie DANCE WITH ME-with Vanessa Williams & a young , handsome Cuban-fantastic dancing!Artistic-do all kinds of scenery with pastels, paint, collage, rock painting, pottery, cartooning etc

Like classical and ballet music, jazz-smooth, funky, Zen music for meditation, pop music, not a fan of country music,Music from the islands which is very exotic and happy, sensual! Spanish music- guitar and some folk music like James Taylor whom I adore-soft and romantic, music from the Big Band era and from the 40's musicals like Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and also Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra etc

Dr. Zhivago, How the West was Won, Old classics on TCM ,All the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers  as well as Gene Kelly and the many dancers like the many dancing ladies he danced with., Ben Hur, Bible movies like The Ten Commandments ,Doris Day & Rock Hudson movies, Comedies like Carol Burnette, Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz, Romance movies on You tube & Netflix., Titanic, Gone with The Wind etc The  Thornbirds with Richard Chamberlain.

The old TV movies like The Lucille Ball Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, Dick Clark's dance Show, Columbo, Murder She Wrote, Laugh _In with Goldie Hawn, Arte Johnson, other funny comedians,The Lawrence Welk Show,
Murder shows, The Defenders, Doctor Kildare, The Mary Tyler Show, The Dick Van Dyck Show, The Murder Show with Dick Van Dyck and Barry Van Dyke, Mission Impossible. Don't like any of the shocking ,gun fighting shows they have now like , court scenes dealing with rape , murder and violation to immigrants etc

Like all kinds of books-Self-help, autobiographies, about the movie stars and the Royals from Britain, books about countries of the world, artists from Europe-the Old Masters, Canadian artists- group of seven, Haiku Poetry, books on how to cartoon, paint, draw & do pastel drawings, other kinds of Poetry, fun children's fables, National Geographic, books about Customs & cultures, Psychology books, etc.

"How do I love thee , let me count the Ways?" ,From Haiku Poetry-"The violet, held in the hand, yet more lovely "by  Koshu, "Dammit" from Rhett Butler to Scarlett in GONE WITH THE WIND, from Haiku poetry-The Hanging bridge, creeping vines Entwine our lives" by Basho,'I Like the way she makes me feel",Romeo, Romeo where for art Thou? Those are the only quotes I recall