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)

What is this?