Male

44

I spend free time reading, dining, cooking, watching movies, listening to music, and the all-important hanging out. My wife and I enjoy live music, especially classical orchestral, and opera.

I like a lot of pop music, from the Replacements to Stevie Ray Vaughn to Metallica to Tom Waits to Muddy Waters, but I haven't been to a big pop concert in years. Favorite classical composers include Mahler, Rachmaninov, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius, and Liszt. My wife's the bigger opera fan, but I like it, especially "Caro Nome" from _Rigoletto_, which brought her to tears at a recital.

I like hiking and taking scenic drives.

As far as literature goes, I like a lot of it, but my top three are American, British, and Russian/Ukrainian in translation.

I used to be very interested in art, but that was when I lived in a city, Boston. Now I live in a suburb, Redwood City, and instead of going to a museum weekly, I go every few months.

For work I write fiction and I do line editing for several biotech investment magazines.. My short story "Talking WriteMax!®" is in issue 4.4 of Dark Sky Magazine. It can be found at
www.darkskymagazine.com/2007/1...te-max/