CURRENT MISSION

Write Fiction that Matters, Have fun with New People. Travel

ABOUT ME

My friends would describe me as intelligent, adventurous, dependable, honest, and reliable.

PHILOSOPHY

Steve Jobs:"Here's to the misfits, the rebels, the trouble makers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They are not fond of rules. They have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. But the only things you can't do is ignore them because they change things. They push this human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

Mark Twain: "Never let your schooling interfere with your education"

David Mamet: "You will encounter in your travels folks of your own age who chose the institutional path, who became the arts administrators rather than the actors, the casting agents rather than the writers. These folks chose to serve an institutional authority in exchange for a paycheck, and these folks are going to be with you for the rest of your life, and you actors and writers and people who come up off the street, who live without certainty day to day and year to year are going to have to bear with being called children by these institutional types; you will, as Shakespeare tells us, endure 'the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes.'
It is not childish to live with uncertainty, to devote oneself to craft rather than a career, to an idea rather than an institution. It's courageous and requires a courage of the order that the institutionally co-opted are ill equipped to perceive. They are so unequipped to perceive it that they can only call it childish, and so excuse their exploitation of you."

Frederic Bastiat: “Advise me, but do not force your opinion on me. I shall decide at my peril and risk; that is enough, and for the law to interfere would be tyranny.”

Jorge Luis Borges:
"Boast of Quietness
Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than metors
The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.
Sure of my life and my death, I observe the ambitious and would like to understand them.
Their day is greedy as lariat in the air.
Their night is a rest from the rage within steel quick to attack.
They speak of humanity.
My humanity is in feeling we are all voices of the same poverty.
They speak of homeland.
My homeland is the rhythm of the guitar, a few portraits, an old sword,
the willow grove's visible prayer as evening falls.
Time is living me.
More silent than my shadow, I pass through the loftily covetous multitude.
They are indispensable, singular, worthy of tomorrow.
My name is someone and anyone.
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to
arrive."

Albert Einstein: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Interests

I spend my time traveling, reading great books, and volunteering in my community. I particularly enjoy excellent writing in the form of investigative journalism, drama, and literature.

• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• education
• beer
• reading
• traveling
• guitar
• teaching
• journalism
• law
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

The Brothers Karamazov, Wool, The Devil's Teardrop, Crime and Punishment, Dune, all Harry Potter books, Sula, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the Shins, Stevie Wonder,oldies in general

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Sistine Chapel and Statue of David in Italy left me awestruck. Going to an Indian wedding in Bombay was amazing with its colors and energy.

Teach, Learn, Share

I enjoy people that can have a fiery intellectual conversation over a beer while still being able to joke around and have a good time. I most enjoy people that are passionate about what they do without being condescending.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States