A recent picture of me.
Lived in New Delhi, India; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Paris, France. Spent junior high and high school in Scarsdale, New York.
Studied engineering and liberal arts as an undergraduate. Graduated with a degree in philosophy. Then I had a three year brush with the law. (Law school.) I didn't find the law to my liking, so shifted career paths over to one of my true loves - - - teaching.
Taught computers in elementary and junior high school for about four years. Then quit teaching to develop educational software full time.
While doing the software thing I did quite a bit of freelance writing about educational technology. Wrote for some Scholastic publications, Quality Computer's "Enhance," and a few other publications. Did freelance writing work for Apple Computer.
Between 1999 and 2002 I worked for the Arlington Public Schools as an Instructional Technology Coordinator at two elementary schools. My job involved keeping the Macintosh computers happy and the kindergarten kids giggling.
I remain a deep believer in the power of public libraries. If you're not sure why public libraries are the best thing around, check out, "12 Ways Libraries are Good for Our Country." as well as, "Community Content in Public Libraries."
Community volunteering; writing; computer user groups, playing guitar; spending time with children and computers; going to the library; spending time with friends; thinking about things; hearing from others who have been thinking about things; working on collaborative projects; reading TidBits; downloading files with intriguing descriptions; meeting people of shared interest, answering e-mail.
Virginia Macintosh Users Group
Washington Apple Pi
Berkeley Macintosh Users Group
Capital PC Users Group
Bay Area Video Coalition
America Online
Community Technology Centers' Network
"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." Helen Keller.
"Each of us must be the change we want to see in the world." Mahatma Ghandi.
"A life is only as important as the effect it has on other lives." Jackie Robinson.
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else"
Booker T. Washington
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein.
"A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Goethe.
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it." David Starr Jordan.
"Never doubt the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. That's about the only way it has ever happened in the past." Margaret Mead.
"We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams." Arthur O'Shaughnessy
"We are as gods, so we might as well get good at it." Stewart Brand.
"I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I
was a stranger and you took me in; I was naked and you clothed me; I was
sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me. I thirsted for knowledge, and you gave me an opportunity to learn." Jesus.
"In every idea a multitude of new ideas is lying dormant." Emmanual Swedenborg.
"Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded up, what profit is in them both?" Jesus.
"The earliest you can start any project is now." Lucy Mallan.
"Two web links diverged in a yellow wood,
And I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." Robert Frost.
"There is creative vision in each of us, but sometime it's hard to get that creative part started." Barbara Januszkiewicz
Australia; Denmark; Alaska; The Bay Area; Boston; Vancouver; Minnesota; Michigan; Dulles, Virginia.