I am a product of my upbringing
in beautiful California, and therefore one of my goals in life (and in some sense, perhaps the most important to maintaining individuality here in the east) is to wear sandals year 'round. It snows here, though, so that would be silly: I usually make year 'round with thick socks but don boots on those mid-Atlantic snow-slush days.
I grew up in the Bay Area in Northern California, but served
my time living in Southern California, too. Both have their plusses and minuses,
but there's no doubt that I consider Northern California to be "home".
I spent my very early years in
Berkeley , but emerged relatively unscathed. We moved when I was 7 to beautiful
little Los Gatos, where
I spent my formidable years. Our summers were in
Santa Cruz , and the influence of having grown up in the greater Bay Area
will always be with me. I'm rather out of place here on the East coast (my friends
all agree I'm somewhat "crunchy"). I'm truly a redwood forest kinda
granola-head at heart. When was the last time YOU hugged a tree? Huh?
I attended San Jose State University
as an undergrad in physics and math. I then moved on to
U.C.Irvine for graduate school (also in physics). It's in Southern California.
Orange. County, that is... movie stars , swimming pools.
I lived in Irvine for 8 years, and although it has a bad name for being without
"character", I kinda liked living there when I was in school: finely maintained
lawns, perfect everything - and therefore no distractions. Oh ya, and less than
five miles from the beach.
I'm divorced. All I'll say about that here is that sometimes
things don't work out the way you'd hoped they would. Then you pull yourself
up and move on. It's even more painful because there is a child involved, but
sometimes what's easiest isn't what's best. Enough philosophy.
Amongst my interests, mostly in the past (no time for
such frivolity now, it seems) are folk dancing (Balkan mostly) and playing
the fiddle (old-timey mostly). See the About Me page for what I do now for kicks.
