Ben
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | community development/espionage |
| Location | north of 70, south of Lake Erie, Ohio, United States |
| Introduction | Grew up in suburban Baltimore. Went to college in Ohio. Stayed in Ohio. Married, had two children. Now we're empty nesters and semi-centenarians. I enjoy writing, music, and occasionally writing music, among other pursuits. My work often involves helping rural communities think about and influence their future. |
| Interests | music, reading, writing, photography,walks in the woods, observing nature, nonfiction trade paperbacks, progressive rock, Relay for Life, teaching high schoolers in Sunday School but mainly learning from them, driving roads I've never traveled. |
| Favorite movies | Field of Dreams, Also Star Wars #4, Anything put out by Christopher Guest and his troupe: Best in Show, Like a Mighty Wind. Stupid humor: Rat Race, Napoleon Dynamite, Airplane! |
| Favorite music | progressive rock, classical, singer-songwriter, fusion/jazz, progressive bluegrass, Celtic. |
| Favorite books | anything by Bill Bryson, John Grisham page turners, nonfiction that tries to explain us (Malcolm Gladwell, Oliver Sacks, Thomas Friedman, David Brooks), The Bible (RSV), and I highly recommend the essays, about small town life, of Michael Perry ("Population: 485") |
If there's no I in team, why is there meat?
To feed carnivores.