Photography, poetry being on the water with people are my passions. sailing for fun, rowing for exercise. I love people more than anything and have faith that we'll pull off surviving, and manage not to annihilate ourselves or the rest of the planet. I live in Point Richmond with my 10 year old daughter (half-time) who shares her fathers love of humanity.
I'm a licensed boat captain: I do boat charters and sailing instruction as a second career. Backpacking, hiking, camping and just being in the outdoors give me great pleasure.

Teaching, planning for retirement, looking for the next phase, trying to form a non-profit sea education organization, gardening (a little) sailing a lot, writing poems in my spare time, going to the library, watching movies on netflix, hanging out on Orcas Is. rowing, reading, planning a trip to Europe for the summer.

sailing, rowing, making tea, cooking breakfast on sunday mornings.

you tell me.

Umberto Eco, Ethan Canin, Jane Austin are my favorite writers, but I like reading classics. Eco's The Island of the Day Before is a book I could pick up, read and laugh with any time. Add a renewed interest in Willa Cather: My Anonia. I read Death Comes for the Archbishop a while back, but it is still a favorite. Ethan Canin feels like a good brother to me.
Amelie, Travelers and Magicians, Les Trois Seasons, American Beauty are some of my favorite films. My taste in music is fairly eclectic. I'm not a big opera fan, but I do love Turandot and some Monteverdi. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tony Bennett, Ralph Towner, Andalusian music from Spain(redundant, I know) , various modern jazz artists, the Beatles are some of the things on my Ipod. It also contains a few lectures from UC Berkeley.

my daughter, good food, the sun, hope, affection, a horizon line.

love, work, the next poem or photograph, the things my daughter says to me.

Doing a "Beercan Race" making dinner with friends, hanging out with my daughter, reading,

I like my privacy.

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