Look and Listen

Biography

I've loved boats since grade school, when I often drew them on Big Chief tablets. I've cruised boats back and forth across the Gulf of Mexico, up and down the east coast of the U.S.A., across countless lakes and miles of rivers. I've written one novel set on a boat, which is not yet published but hopefully will find its way to you one day. Maybe then you'll understand. Early in my adult life I was drawn to art and then enjoyed a great career as an architect. But books and good writing have always been central to me regardless of career.

Inspiration

The books I own say a lot about who I am. On my shelf you’ll find twelve versions of the Bible and one volume from the Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin, a gift from a fellow student), along with many books on Judaism and Christianity. I have a whole shelf devoted to books about boats and boating (more on this below). You’ll find hundreds of suspense and mystery novels including the first five mystery novels I ever read (from the Hardy Boys series). There is a section with most of the classics they forced on me in high school and college, which somehow seem to have improved since then. I have several dozen travel books, a section on architecture, about two dozen screenplays, and twenty or twenty-five books containing good color plates of paintings, mostly by impressionists.