Location: The Verdugo Mountains

Date of birth: 30 October 1957

My children: NOT in order of preference, mind you- N, T, Q, and Sam the Cat.

Hobbies include but are by no means limited to: fostering confusion, reading, writing, music- all kinds, movies, politics, walking, cooking, travel, nature and ecology, fine arts, not so fine arts, installation art, crass art de wacko, dressing up cat in outragious outfits, computer stuff related to communications.

Favorite word: "butt", when used as a modifier, like; "it's butt cold." or "that's butt awful."

Most despised word: 'like' used as a verbal spacing device, like: "that's, like, awful."

Favorite colours: eggplant and plum.

Favorite month: October

Favorite scents: freshly cut grass, mulch, soil, fallen leaves, squishy babies.

Favorite fabric: thin, luminous cotton.

Favorite travel destination: of places i've actually been- fairfax, ca.

Favorite poet: kojak.

Favorite food: B&R gold medal ribbon ice cream.

Favorite actors: John Cusak, Kevin Spacey, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hanks.

Favorite actresses: Meryl Streep, Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn.

Favorite comic strip: Calvin & Hobbes

Favorite artists: Van Gogh, Bill Viola, Lyn Plummer, Buckminster Fuller, MacIntosh, Greene Bros, Cecile Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bouguereau, Julia Margaret Cameron, Graham Nichols.

Favorite TV show: Six Feet Under

Favorite board game: Scrabble

Favorite kind of restaurant: japanese

Favorite music: AfroCelts, U2, Annie Lennox, Davif Bryne-TalkingHeads-TomTomClub, Boxing Ghandis, Single Gun Theroy, Loreena McKennit, Queen, Arthea Frankin(!), Motown, Funk, more Funk, Sooo-preme Funk-essence.

Favorite places to hide out: in nature

Favorite holidays: Halloween, Christmas

Favorite authors: Annie Lamott, Marsha Sinetar, Madeline L'Engle, Fredrick Buechner, Rilke, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Sue Bender... really like hiakus.

Short list of favorite movies, no particular order: You've Got Mail, American Beauty, Fight Club, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Spinal Tap, Adaptation, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gross Pointe Blank, Room With A View, Sixth Sense, My Girl, Frida, Amelie, Matrix, A.I., High Fidelity,

Political persuasion: listening.

Strengths: faith, empathy, loyalty, creativity, spacial relationships.

Weaknesses: passive, impatient, easily distracted, have a high maintenance cat .

Most novel life experience to date:

i once had a redtailed hawk fly into my chest. zowie.