Counterintuitive

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation writing teacher
Location United States
Introduction I teach writing; I like to cycle uphill when I'm not injured; I was a liberal, then doubting Mormon, now I'm retired.
Interests NPR, PBS, reading, running, mountain biking, cycling, religion, environmental science, rhetoric
Favorite Movies Heat, Princess Mononoke, Fast cheap and out of control, The color of paradise, Children of Heaven, Kikujuro, Matchstick men, 1984, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Schindler's List, A Respectful Trade, Roots, Rivers and Tides, The fog of war, just, The usual suspects, Unforgiven, Among Giants, Butterfly, Confidence, Roger and Me, Decalogues, Red, Blue, White, Scent of a Woman, Secrets and Lies, The Sixth Sense, Smoke Signals, Traffic, Vertigo, Husbands and Wives, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan, Annnie Hall, Brazil, The Gods must be Crazy
Favorite Music Nanci Griffith, Tracy Chapman, Bruce Springsteen, Phantom of the Opera, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, Billy Joel, Fiddler on the Roof
Favorite Books Guns Germs and Steeel, The Chocolate War, Running and Being, The Song of the Dodo, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Catcher in the Rye, All the Pretty Horses, The Illiad, Walden, The Road Less Traveled, The lion the witch and the wardrobe, Angle of Repose, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Green Mile, Speaker for the Dead, Cliff Walk, Straight Man, The Giant Joshua, Refuge, The Diversity of Life, Poisonwood Bible, Every Second Counts, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Things They Carried, Beloved, Plainsong