I grew up on the East Coast, right by the beach. Someday, I hope to settle down near the ocean. I'm a father of two wonderful boys, and a divorcee (is that relevant)? I get along well with kids; I suspect, this is because I'm a big one of them. I've two enlistments in the U.S. Army, as soldier medic/lab tech. This makes no sense, really, since I’m essentially a techno-hippie to the bone. I heart Mama Earth. She inspires me to live lovingly; to take only what I need and to give as much as I able. Papa Sky captivates my imagination and stargazing humbles me to a state of reasonableness. On occasion, I secretly try contacting the mothership by making crop circles in nearby fields. I believe technology is an extension of nature, and so, I love my computer too. I also believe in a robust national defense. I told you, it makes no sense. I love playing with electronic music and mixing tribal rhythms. Dancing and drum circles are always good medicine. Contradictions, enigmas, strange & absurd thinks excite me. Museums, libraries, 2nd hand book stores, & vinyl record stores are sacred spaces of refuge for me. Underdogs are often my heroes. I develop hives and burning rashes to most fundamentalities: fear based dogmas, religious zealots, middle-class socialist mediocrity and bullies, just to name a few. Friendship is precious to me. Honesty, a flexible mind, and a good pair of boots are vitally important as well. I've little interest in flings. Alas, with less than a year of recovery, chances are slim anyhow.

working for a power greater than Jeff...slowly rising, like a wee baby phoenix, shaking the dust from my wings, the sleep out of my eyes & waking up to a new dawn of the living...on the best days, remembering who I truly am...on the less than best, the same, only slower.

hmmmming, let's see...hugging, phlebotomy, taking tests (guessing), making other people sound great when I sing Karaoke. Rice, definitely good at making sticky rice, and green tea...oh, table tennis, mixing records...I make a mean Spanikopita (sp?) dish.

Not a clue. Usually, people don't notice me, unless I open my big mouth...then, it's a knuckle crackin', scowlin' good time for all.

Recent BOOKS: Stephen Kings Dark Tower series, a collection of early short stories by Philip K. Dick, tons of books on recovery, spirituality and codependency (i.e. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, all 3 Conversations with God by Neal Donald Walsch, Psychadelic Experience by Timothy Leary, The Holy Man by Susan Trott, Playing It by Heart by Melody Beattie, Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Suzuki Shunryu, etc.)

some favorite AUTHORS: Philip K. Dick, Dan Simmons, Theodore Sturgeon, Ursula K. LeGuin, Ayn Rand, Jack Kerouac, Alan Watts, Ram Dass, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Camille Paglia, Anne Rice, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Noam Chomsky, W.S. Burroughs ....blah, there are more...

MUSIC: I’m no snob, I’ll listen to most anything, just depends... Everybody has an ipod these days. When I hear something I like, it's appropriated. Otherwise, I listen to public radio, college radio or stream electronic music.

Movies: Fight Club, Chasing Amy, Team America, Blade Runner, Five Fingers of Death, Dodgeball, The Cook the Thief the Wife and her Lover, Hidden Crotch Dragon Ass..oh wait, Hidden Tiger Croutching Dragon, Tank Girl, A Beautiful Mind, 300 (yes, It's true), Kundun, Cousins, just to name a few.

FOOD: Greek (Mediterranean), Indian, Thai, Japanese, Italian & Mexican, Ice Cream, in that order. But, I’m a cheap date, perfectly happy eating peanut butter & pretzels by a campfire.

self acceptance, sense of humor, faith, love, my lil big book, pen&paper

What’s really goin’ on? (lol!) Gratitude for sobriety/recovery and consciousness of my Creator’s infinite, incomprehensible love, wisdom & sense of humor. My kids. Traveling with them someday, cross country, or maybe to Machu Picchu. What would Buddha do? Imagining my ecofriendly, sustainable energy, geodesic dome future house while pondering the reality of my subgenius, minimalistic (i.e. slacker) existence. What would it be like to live under the sea or jet ski on the moon? Walt Disney is an alien. My ADHD is a superpower. Why there's brail on the drive thru ATM machines? DNA is a virus from outter space. Exactly, how many licks does it take...

It's usually best I think as little as possible, but I just can't stop the freakshow parading through my mind; so when I'm not required to think, I meditate: stay focused on breathing, listening or helping others, or whatever it is I'm doing (karmic yoga style) and enjoy the show.

reading, writing, stargazing, getting lost, hangin' out by the river with friends or by the bonfire, surfin' the internet, exploring a new and different hobby...is today Friday? I just made my own didgeridoo; and, a hank-drum too. Maybe I'll go play it.

i don't know...

if you're a match, if you can relate, if you're curious or bored, need help with a crossword. I'm usually game for a round of raquetball or table tennis, even paintball. Oh, by the way, if you have a problem with drugs or alcohol, Id be happy to talk with you about a SOLUTION.