Age: born March 25, 1966 (Chinese year of the Horse)
Sign: Aries; also Stop, Yield, and Do Not Enter.
Personality: INFJ
Hair: Brown, turning grey. Five years ago: just Brown.
Eyes: Two, evenly spaced.
Music: Yes.
Movies: Yes!
Books: Yes!!
Favorite Genre(s): Literary, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Favorite Movie of 2004: Sideways
Favorite Dead Author(s): Flannery O’Connor, Herman Melville, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, G. Bernard
Shaw, Mark Twain, E. A. Poe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Virginia Woolf, Bertolt Brecht, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov.
Favorite Living Author(s): Cormac McCarthy, Louise Erdrich, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Tyler.
The Glass: Half empty.
Current Pets: None, unless you count an occasional housefly.
Late Pets: a cat (Frisky) who died of natural causes at 18 years of age,
a few birds all named Bird, assorted unnamed fish.
Abandoned Pet: a Welsh Corgi named Adam (after John Adams) who we gave to a friend in Illinois because the apartment management in Yuma doesn’t allow pets
(see Current Pets above).
Family: one wife, one daughter, myself.
Current Job(s): Husband, Father, part-time Chef for a family of three (see Family above), Chauffeur to my teenage
daughter, English Teacher.
Former Job(s): Peace Corps Volunteer, College English Teacher, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Short Story Writer, Editor
of Sou’wester, Writer for The Alestle (college newspaper), Newspaper Delivery Boy.
Favorite
World City: Bangkok. (London is a close second)
Favorite US
City: Washington, DC.
Favorite
State: Asleep.
Red or Blue
States: I prefer to combine
the red and blue states and see them all as purple, the color of bruises.
Favorite Quotes:
“The greatest of evils and
the worst of crimes is poverty.” --George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
“Be a nonconformist.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“You sound like my kind of writer.” --Joyce Carol Oates (spoken to me after Lloyd Kropp, my former creative writing professor, described some of my short stories to her at a book signing in 1996)
“If you must be absent, I must have
an excuse. But in time you will discover that I’ll believe anything you
tell me.” --Tom Gipe, Professor of Art and Design, Southern Illinois University
(spoken to my 3D Design class on the first day of the term, Spring, 1986)
