John Lee Bryant:  

I hope that old friends will remember me as fondly as I remember them. My favorite way to relax is to walk the hills of this beautiful City, or workout, and at other times to socialize with friends, go to the Symphony, practice the piano. I have received a lot of inspiration from my mother, who passed away in 2006 at age 94. She taught me how to study in school, to set goals, and because she was an avid reader, I am, too. I have lived in a number of places in our beautiful country. For my university days, I lived in Waco, then in Ann Arbor, MI, and later in Berkeley, CA. I liked all of them, as each was different and interesting. Later, in my work I lived in Dallas, San Francisco, Evanston, IL, Long Beach, CA, Midland, TX, and finally settled back in San Francisco, where I now am retired, and taking care of all those things that I did not have time to do when I was working! One of my biggest surprises in life was having a brain tumor in 1989, and the resulting neurosurgery. That changed my life, as I was disabled for 7 years following that. However, eventually I found the rehabilitation that I needed and have regained the use of the right side of my body, and gone even beyond that into regular fitness training, which I enjoy very much. During this time my spiritual life grew, as I had to pray for guidance and direction as never before. I am grateful to have survived all of that, and to have been able to go back to work until I was able to reach retirement age. One of my interests over the years has been historic houses here in San Francisco. I owned 2 Victorians, and did extensive restoration on the 2nd one. Now I live in an Edwardian from 1904, and have done somewhat extensive renovation on this home also--it is an ongoing process, it seems, never ending! To be truly happy, I would be doing exactly wha...Expand for more