Builder. Teacher. Thinker. Designer.

Keeping fit. Learning Danish. Making furniture. Tending my garden. Writing sentence fragments.

I am passionate about working with my hands and mind.

1. My increasing awesomeness over time.
2. Complete and utter lack of modesty.

Books: True Grit, The Anarchist's Tool Chest, The Name of the Rose, 1984, The Nature and Art of Workmanship, True Grit, The Design of Everyday Things, The Uses of Literacy, Watership Down, Franny and Zooey, Five Minds for the Future, Jane Eyre, Absolute Beginners, Shopclass as Soulcraft, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Peter Principle

TV: Antiques Roadshow, Sherlock, Downton Abbey, The Passionate Eye, Planet Earth, Archer

Movies: Amadeus, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Thin Man, North by Northwest, Paris Texas, Pina, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, V for Vendetta, Shakespeare in Love, Rear Window, Jackie Brown, Gary Hustwits' Design Trilogy, Shakespeare in Love, Casino Royale

Music: Sixties jazz, motown, 70s Funk, Jonelle Monae, Leslie Feist, Classical music, esp. Baroque and Romantic, Old time , Alberta Hunter, Nina Simone, Rufus Wainwright. I love this album.

Food: I'm an avid reader of these food blogs. They should give a good indication of what and how I like to eat: Smitten Kitchen, An Endless Banquet, Chowhound, The Urban Farming Guys

When I was young, I had a crush on Yvonne Craig a.k.a Batgirl from the 60s Batman TV series. She was a librarian and a superhero. How hot is that?

You are impossibly wonderful. (Yes, I believe in the impossible.)