I sport the same getup year round. Dress pants, shiny in the seat; frayed collared shirt; woolen blazers that look like they're from the Coolidge administration.

Blue denim never touch my legs, canvas never touch my feet. I wear leather soles with laces.

The person I hope to find loves blisteringly long walks, all-day cuddling, smart books and charming spaces. I'm working on a quickly growing company and the thought of building it alongside someone I deeply love, someone who's opinion and careful advice I find invaluable, would make me happy.

Architect and founder of an exciting, sleep-depriving custom suit company.

Sleeping in stormy tents and making other people's homes nicer than my own (danielfriedmandesign.com).

Excelling beyond your typical amateur handyman and napkin sketcher extraordinaire.

I'm an average guy with the complexity-level of a lawnmower engine, or a cigarette lighter, or the mixed flavors of striped AquaFresh Toothpaste.

Walker Percy, Bruno Schulz, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Yates, David Foster Wallace, Cormac McCarthy, Farley Mowat, Knut Hamsun, I.B. Singer, Donald Barthelme, Nicholson Baker, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, James Agee.

Ken Burns, Seven Samurai, Brazil, Antanjuat: The Fast Runner, Billy Liar, Fishing with John, Blow Up, Bicycle, Slacker, Five Easy Pieces

Hank Williams, Bert Jansch, Gordon Lightfoot, Harry Nilsson, The Band, Shostakovich, Glenn Gould, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Phil Ochs, John Hartford, Beatles, Tom Paxton, Tom Waits, Towns Van Zandt . . .

moments of silence
reading outside until light fails
fresh ideas
brief forays into adulthood (brief!)
teasing people in low-level corporate office attire
a sound moral compass.

fate and the fun it's having with my life.

arguing over dinner and urging a point with the twisting jabs of my fork.

Sigh. At times I regret not being in the herring business.

you recall the childhood pleasure of drawing on those big, useless, pink erasers with a ballpoint pen.

you are Jewish, you think fast, you offer delicately phrased advice, you are brain-popping pretty.