Michael
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| 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 three 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" |