A few decades back, when I was a still a distant thought in my parents’ minds — like flying cars or world peace — Jack Kerouac christened an ancient Chinese proverb. It went “Repose beyond fate.” That says a lot about my life.
I dig traveling. I recently wrapped up a two-month lam across Eastern Europe. They make delicious veggie souvlakis on Santorini.
I also enjoy writing, web design, organic pears and Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges. He’s one of the few informed mainstream journalists that I’ve stumbled across in the last few years. He writes “the cult of self dominates our cultural landscape… it is this perverted ethic that gave us Wall Street bankers and investment houses that willfully trashed the nation’s economy, stole money from tens of millions of small shareholders who had bought stock in these corporations for retirement or college.” He’s got a lot of insight into the TV-and-celebrity-obsessed lives we lead.
In the past, I’ve run an underground newspaper at the University of Connecticut, The Muck, co-founded a local citizen journalism newspaper in Santa Cruz, California, the Cournalist, and created a web design firm in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, The Other Design House.
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