: About Me

I am a trained musician.

I teach about computers and technology.

I direct a choir.

I love to read anything and everything, and listen to recorded books when I can't stop to read.

I have two grown daughters that I dearly love. They gave me a Wii for Christmas and I'm already being slowly sucked into the video game vortex!

I've just started riding a "crank forward" bicycle for health and commuting.

When reading others' articles, I appreciate a balanced point of view along with an effort to be comprehensive. When writing my own articles, I try to avoid echoing others' viewpoints while considering just how to organize what I want to say. I motivate myself by knowing two things: that the knowledge is out there somewhere already, and that I have an obligation to connect it in my own way so that others after me can do the same.

My passion is ...

learning something new.

I know too much about ...

too little.

My parents always told me ...

Whatever you decide to do, do it the very best way you can.

My childhood ambition ...

to become a symphony conductor

My favorite memory ...

involves successfully doing something for the first time

Why I write ...

I want to share the fruits of my own learning in an engaging way.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

A Soulful Messiah

My first job ...

working in a cosmetics factory.

My best moment ...

the momentary silence in the audience at the end of a performance prior to the applause

My inspiration ...

tall trees

Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Ten reasons why I voted for Barack Obama

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I voted in my first presidential election in 1976. In all the elections since then, I have to admit that when I voted for Barack Obama this year, it was the first time I voted for qualities I liked in a candidate instead of against traits I disliked in all the other candidates. It was easy to feel good that Barack Obama is a member of a minority, of course, and that he's young, and a family man. It was also a delight to consider that we might once again have a convincing, coherent speaker representing the United States on the world's stage. Certainly, his educational resume and published b...

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