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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Freelance writer/editor |
| Location | Concrete, WA, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a freelance writer and editor, specializing in development trends (specifically, the new urbanism), plus home and garden topics, and travel. I write feature articles, plus PR, marketing, and advertising copy. I've also authored two books (one of which never made it to print--nuts), with a third on the way: "Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating small-scale community in a large-scale world," co-authored with architect Ross Chapin, Taunton Press, fall 2010. |
| Interests | Fishing, fly-fishing, crabbing, gardening, backpacking, dayhiking, camping, new urbanism, urban exploration, photography, landscaping, light carpentry, Audrey Tatou, rock hounding, bird watching, reading, writing, fly-tying, cooking, local politics. |
| Favorite movies | A Room with a View, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, The Sound of Music, Kiss of the Dragon, Garden State, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Somewhere in Time, Music and Lyrics, Catch and Release, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai, The English Patient, Amadeus, Being John Malkovich, Harold and Maude, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Braveheart, Dances with Wolves, Chaplin, Chocolat, A Christmas Story, The Cider House Rules, The Color Purple, Dangerous Liaisons, Immortal Beloved, A Fish Called Wanda, Waiting for Guffman, The Lake House, The Man in the Iron Mask, My Own Private Idaho, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Passion of the Christ, The Princess Bride, Quills, Revenge, This is Spinal Tap, Run Lola Run, Silverado, Twelve Monkeys, V for Vendetta, Lost in Translation |
| Favorite music | Almost anything but rap--but then I don't consider rap to be music. I especially like hymns (the old ones, as opposed to the inane, cliche-ridden "worship choruses" that are commonly sung these days), REM, Allison Krause, the Bethel Choir CD I have, anything classical (especially Bach's 'Jesu Mein Freude' motet and Barber's Adagio), good choral music (classical), Nick Adams, Sting, Katharine McPhee, Emmy Rossum, the 'Garden State' soundtrack, and so many more... |
| Favorite books | Moby Dick, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Short Stories, the Bible, Written on the Body, On the Road, Jesus' Son, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, They Whisper, Blue Like Jazz, The Shipping News, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Lord of the Flies, A River Runs Through It, Charlotte's Web, The Things They Carried, Dead Languages, Like Water for Chocolate, The English Patient, The Little Prince, anything written by Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Raymond Carver, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Natalie Kusz... and, of course, the book that I'm currently co-writing with architect Ross Chapin, "Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating small-scale community in a large-scale world" (Taunton, fall 2010). |