Now
Updated January 20, 2026
Working on
Retired many years now, but projects include:
- writing
- building a website
- finding a sustainable (for me) way of eating
- putting my affairs in order
Studying
- Chess
- Astro
- Philosophy of William James (primarily Pragmatism)
- American cultural history, 19th & Early 20th century
- Movies (all years)
- TV (21st century Golden Age)
Reading
Books
- Michel de Montaigne
- William James
- Janet Malcolm
- Joan Didion
- Cordwainer Smith
- Philip K. Dick
- Jim Thompson
- Thomas Pynchon
Newsletters, bloggers
- Ted Gioia
- Alan Jacobs
- Sam Kahn
Living
- Advising my grown children who have left the nest
- Providing a home for my permanently disabled son (Down syndrome)