The author was born in 1955 and lives in Sonoma County, California, with his husband and a young Cairn terrier. He retired in 2005 after a career in software. He has a complicated relationship to atheism, Christianity, and Zen Buddhism. He loves many kinds of music, including Renaissance polyphony, Bruckner, the Grateful Dead, and ambient (thanks, Hearts of Space).
He identifies strongly with the fictional character Chad C. Mulligan, from John Brunner’s remarkable 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar: one who has important insights into the human predicament but great difficulty in getting his fellow humans to pay attention.
