Interests:
What I Enjoy: Visual and performing arts, humanities, social sciences. Cultural studies, traditional and new media, travel. Style and language, wit and repartee, bright ideas, poetry and drama. Health sciences, nutrition, whole foods, culinary arts. Foreign-language films, photography, and design.
Causes: Clean air and water; protecting the Great Lakes, woodlands, and wildlife; clean energy. Supporting the arts, improving higher education, ensuring human rights, championing diversity, making a difference.
Recommended Books: George Lakoff, The Political Mind; Geoff Colvin, Talent Is Overrated; Tony Hilfer, The New Hegemony in Literary Studies: Contradictions in Theory; Jeanne Emmons, The Glove of the World (poetry); Alice Cowan, Composition (design in art); Joseph T. Hallinan, Why We Make Mistakes.
Swimming, cross-country skiing, hiking, shooting hoops, dance, yoga.