Salvatore Conti Conti

retired gold and silver smith - self employed. Sculpting merrily away in Suisun, California just east of Napa. Grapes everywhere. No bagels. No jelly donuts. New Yorkers always miss a good bagel and jelly donuts when one expatriots. Right? Recently moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area, my spiritual home. Life seems to get better with age. Life is sweet. Image - with my grand niece Amaya, now 8 and grand nephew Ian, now 2. Love to all.

We're all almost 70! What we've all been 'up to' is a long, and hopefully, a full and happy story. Ex-hippie - not so ex. After Elmont, spent some time in American and Western Samoa, then studied Art, sculpting, photography, film-making and English Lit., Moved to San Francisco in '69 in its hey day. My life, lived mostly in SF and for a time in the Catskills, Upstate, NY (brrr... those Arctic winds), a stint on an Ashram in Florida with a fake guru - an unnerving tale. Art, art, art. The only thing I did with my English Lit. degree was read a lot and write poetry. Long career as a fashion jeweler for boutiques and the film industry, silver smith (sterling chalices and bowls). Retired and recently divorced from my grouchy ex-partner. 70 is a good age to start a new adventure.