Interests:
Bike riding, Red Sox baseball, bowling (candle and ten pin), gardening and landscaping, animals, music (especially Rimsky Korsakov, the Beatles, and 1970s Disco), Byzantine history, and books by Leo Tolstoy
Favorite vacation spot:
Eastham, Massachusetts (on the cape)
Favorite Food:
Any kind of beef
Favorite time of day:
Dusk
Favorite recent memory:
Walking the sand bars in Cape Cod Bay with Johnny in the growing autumn darkness.
Books I am currently reading :
Busted, Life Inside The Great Mortgage Meltdown by Edmund L. Andrews, Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir and Ask, Thank, Tell , Improving Stewardship Ministry in Your Congregation by Charles R. Lane
Most meaningful inheritance from my family:
My grandmother's bean pot
Favorite Book of the Bible:
Luke
Favorite Biblical form of literature:
Parables
Favorite church ceremony:
Baptisms
Favorite quotes:
"It is a form of lunacy to repeat the same thing over and over and expect different results." (Ben Franklin)
"The man who so understands himself that he seeks to avoid risky action rather than trusting God for the well being of his existence, though he may live long chronologically, will have no present. His time will be evacuated of content." (Daniel O. Via)
Members of our household:
- Barbara - my wife of 26 years (we met at seminary)
- Johnny - my fourteen year-old son