Smart. Funny. All grown up.

I'm a psychotherapist who aspires to be a part-time beach bum private investigator who lives on a houseboat won in a card game.

I enjoy disappearing into Death Valley for weeks at a time. I like Muay Thai, yoga and eating cheesecake over the sink.

Effortlessly converting any optometrist joke into an ophthalmologist joke.

You'd have to ask them.

Underworld, White Noise, Libra...every single thing by Don DeLillo. Thom Jones short stories. Love Mark Leyner and Mary Oliver in completely different ways. Jon Wurster and Rachel Lichtman are hilarious on Twitter. George Saunders. Ray Kurzweil. Adam Phillips. Read a lot of Jungian psychology. Like to fall asleep to non-fiction audiobooks or Long Now seminars to launch the dreams into interesting orbits.

Terence Malick and Werner Herzog get it just about right every time. And Errol Morris. And Woody Allen, Lars Von Trier, Tati, Miyazaki, Adam Curtis, Melville and Christopher Guest. The Long Goodbye is a near-perfect film. So is Russian Arc.

Into cop shows from the 70's-- apparently a golden age for exotic pets and streetwise sidekicks.

Philip Glass, Burt Bacharach, Small Faces, Stars of the Lid, Thrones, Waylon Jennings, Keith Jarrett, Donnie & Joe Emerson, Ethiopiques, The Frogs.

I like ambient on in the background when I'm watching pro wrestling or making a souffle.

Ceviche, uni with quail egg, popcorn on the stove, nutritive paste. I make a show-stopping fried chicken.

Paradox.
Coriolis effect.
Mission District Banana Belt sunshine.
7-iron.
Happenstance.
The poetry of Socks McGrew.

Reverie. Ancestry. Abundance. Jung's idea that what is not met by consciousness will be met by fate. Also general goofiness.

Saying I'm going to Dharma Punx and staying home and listening to Radio Zindagi instead.

The love of my life is a 3 year-old German Boxer whose paws smell like little corn chips.

You're kind, loving, adventurous, smart, authentic, funny, beautiful and humble. Or 7 out of 8. But humble a must. Read Robert Johnson's We. I want that. Bonus if you can help me spell words like restaurant and liaison.