nouveauchapitre

I am an American who moved to Australia at the end of 1994, and I have dual citizenship.

I have undergone an amicable separation last year, and I have no divorce emotional baggage. My ex and I are civil to each other as we co-parent and I have full access to my 14 year old daughter and 16 year old son, and ex dog, who freaks out when I visit my kids. If his tail wagged any faster it would lift him into the air like a helicopter blade.

Instead of becoming a divorced man sitting in front of the TV eating frozen meals, I recognized that I'm simply beginning the next chapter of my life, and I am embracing it. It is what I have always done. When my daughter had to write a bio of my life, her classmates accused her of making it up. Her teacher gave her 100% credit and wrote at the bottom of her bio paper, "You have a cool dad!"

I am a Francophile and striving to become a fluent francophone. I am seeking a friendship with a French woman. As a divorced 58 year old man, I thought, 'Why not'. It's where my passions lie.

I lived and worked in a winery in Burgundy in the mid 1980s. During last year I began my French language studies again, which included a French language immersion cruise from Sydney to New Caledonia. My son studies French and I'm sending him there later in the year for a home-stay language program. After, New Caledonia I then rented a house in Trausse, in the Languedoc-Roussillon region during last year's grape harvest.

So... I will see what the next chapter of my life brings.