Michael
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My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Consulting |
| Occupation | retired |
| Location | Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States |
| Introduction | In my past or present life: • Independent consultant (mainly, defense, energy, environment) to private- and public-sector clients • Full- or part-time teacher for 45 years in private and public, coed and single-sex, secondary schools, community colleges, and four-year universities • Civic activist mainly in public education, columnist, and letter writer • Published scholar (specialty: Shakespeare), with four degrees, including a master's in secondary education and a doctorate in English literature • Army officer (Intelligence) and Vietnam veteran • NAACP Life member since 1968 and feminist since before the movement • left-leaning Independent once a Yellow-Dog Democrat • Two children, three step-children, and five grandchildren • Master of four dogs and servant to two cats |
| Interests | education, history, philosophy, politics, religion, science, Shakespeare; music, cats & dogs, birdwatching |
| Favorite Movies | Arrival, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Elizabeth, The King's Speech, Bandits, Friday Night Lights, Songcatcher, Blade Runner, Witness for the Prosecution, Bullworth, The Forsyte Saga, A French Village |
| Favorite Music | Elgar's Violin Concerto, Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, swing (Basie, Ellington, Goodman, Miller, Kyser), pre-80s rock and roll, older country & western |
| Favorite Books | Shakespeare plays, Austen novels, Ryle "Concept of Mind, " Frankfurt "On Bullshit, " Kendall "Richard the Third, " Catton "The Bold and Magnificent Dream, " Pullen "The Twentieth Maine, " Hillary "The Final Battle, " Rhodes "The Making of the Atomic Bomb, " Bradley "The MIsts of Avalon, " Shulman "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, " Hillenbrand "Seabiscuit" |