I worked as an engineer, primarily in the area of embedded industrial software. I wrote articles for various publications, some work-related but mostly book and CD reviews for
All About Jazz (available at the
All About Jazz web site). An occasional
classical music then
jazz DJ on
KLCC/Eugene, from 1983 until the
COVID-19 pandemic, these days I play some
amateur jazz piano. I enjoy hunting mushrooms in the fall and
keying wildflowers in the spring.
I am an avid and eclectic reader, primarily of history by writers ancient and medieval, as well as by contemporary academics; and of fiction, poetry and drama, both in English and in translation. I desultorily maintain a blog summarizing my reading at
Homer to Mrabet. More actively, I recently joined the biweekly book sorting group of the
Friends of the Eugene Public Library, and started a
Substack,
Considerations of Justice.
In earlier life, I attended
Weequahic High School, where among my closest friends were my classmates
David Shapiro and
Susan Bordo. Later I was awarded degrees in psychology and computer science at the
University of Oregon. I worked as a nursery school teacher between those courses of study. I have been married for many years to the
fiber artist and educator
Marilyn Robert