I enjoy reading, writing, watching movies, traveling, hiking, camping and going to museums.

I tend to be quiet until I get to know people, but after that it's hard to get me to stop talking. I like having long, digressive conversations that raise more questions than answers.

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Brothers Karamazov, The Magic Mountain, The Recognitions, Faulkner, DeLillo, Yeats, Louise Erdrich, Derek Walcott, James Wright, Deborah Eisenberg, Amy Hempel

Film: Days of Heaven, Andrei Rublev, Casablanca, Mizoguchi, Bresson, Godard, Dreyer, Anthony Mann's westerns, Lubitsch

TV: The Wire, Cheers, The Rockford Files, Antiques Roadshow

Music: free/avant-garde jazz - Coltrane, Fred Anderson, William Parker, David S. Ware, Bill Dixon; krautrock - Can, Faust, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Neu!; Dylan, The Band, Ernest Tubb

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Turkey