Literature and history, especially James Joyce and Gibbon. Playing over grandmaster chess games. Good conversation in person and by e-mail. Taking advice from strangers. Playing basketball, bicycling, and hopping freight cars. Garage, estate, and library book sales. Silence. And interesting noise. Chocolate malts. Pizza. Exeter Academy and UChicago. A public defender attorney in Chicago. Libertarian. Still can't decide whether I'm an atheist or a lapsed Catholic. Fifteen years divorced. Daughter may graduate college some day.