I am a little reticent to include too much information about myself, but here are a few things you might want to know.

I was born in Maryland, grew up in Minnesota, and now live in Chicago.

I'm almost thirty now, single, an only child with parents now gone, and I live in the city with my kitten, Fargo, who is now almost a year old. I'm kind of tall (5'10") and a little thin, mostly from cycling during summertime and cross-country skiing in the winter. I do it a lot.

I write professionally. When I did freelance work, I wrote feature pieces for area suburban newspapers. I've also done technical writing for several companies in the Chicago area and also in Minnesota, and presently do it full-time for an anonymous high-tech company in the Chicago suburbs. I have also done graphic design for the web pages of several clients, most of whom you'll not have heard of. I'm learning more and more about web design as this site progresses. I got interested in it through doing the commercial graphics, and now, here I am.

I play oboe, and have for about sixteen years. For you oboe people, it's a Loree artist model my parents had the foresight to get for me when I was far too young to appreciate it. Now, I'm glad they did. I was pretty good at one time, but am now having to practice a lot to stand to listen to myself. If you're my downstairs neighbor, and you're reading this, I hope you don't mind the noise. I play with a wind quintet made up of people from the University of Chicago and also Northwestern, and we're always looking for somewhere to play. For money. We're pretty good these days.

People tell me I have an unusual ability to repair things. I don't know. Not many things seem to fall apart, and when they do, they're pretty easy to put back together. I'll learn, eventually, to fix anything. I have an old Mercedes-Benz diesel station wagon that has not needed care yet, but once it does, I'll start learning how to fix it.

I now have a page containing some pictures you can look at. There will be more, but these will have to do for now.