After so many years of living in one place, I’m a nomad meeting, learning from and sharing with people, now around the United States Southwest. For that reason, I’m surfing.

Etta James; almost all Motown artists; jazz and jazz standards; performing artists who are their real selves interpreting a song; Tom Waites; Rickie Lee Jones; good, rip my heart out country music; Eric Satie. Film: Da; The Majestic; Monster House. Books: Ink Dark Moon; short, short stories; haiku authors; short stories by Gogol and Russian authors; non-fiction books on writing story, script, fiction, the creative process, acting and performance art; the letters of van Gough, Emily Dickinson, interviews with songwriters and actors speaking about their outlook on and approaches to their craft and art.