- Professional
- Founder & CEO, Global Cents (GCI Live LLC) (retired 3/1/16)
- CV
- Please see my book, "Connecting the Dots — memories and musings of a small-town baby boomer, in four acts"
- Abiding
Interests
- Chief Strategist, Wisdom Bridge Life and Lifework Strategies
- Cycling: Certified Spinning® Instructor
- Music
- Drumming
& Percussion
- BA music degree & career (drums & percussion; studied with the SLSO)
- Nascent Jazz Project
- Amateur Pianist
- Former Board Member, Music Arts School and the Music Institute of Chicago
- Drumming
& Percussion
- How to Change Your Mind — Michael Pollan
- Love Everyone — Parvati Markus
- The Third Reich trilogy (Coming, In Power, At War) — Richard Evans
- Johannes Brahms: A Biography — Jan Swafford
- The Food Revolution — John Robbins
- Tao of Abundance — Laurence G. Boldt
- Teachings of Gurdjieff — C. S. Nott
- In Search of the Miraculous — P.D. Ouspensky
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections — Carl Gustav Jung
- The Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell
- Tao Te Ching — Gia Fu-Feng, Jane English (translators)
- The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali — Prabhavananda, Isherwood (translators)
- The Essential Chögyam Trungpa — Chögyam Trungpa, Carolyn Rose Gimian (editor)
- The Artist's Way — Julia Cameron
- The Psychedelic Explorers Guide — Dr. James Fadiman
- The Snow Leopard — Peter Matthiessen
- The Enneagram — Helen Palmer, Riso/Hudson
- The Keirsey Temperment Sorter — based on Meyers/Briggs and Jungian archetypes (I'm INTJ)
- Seva Foundation
- MAPS
- Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders
- Summer '17: Cycling trip around the Bodensee
- Winter '16: Petit LaFitte
- Summer '15: Cycling trip along the Rhine River, Germany
- Summer '11: Cycling trip to the French Alps and Provence
- August '10: Cycling trip along the Danube River, Austria
- February '10: Tulum, Quintana Roo for nothing more than r&r
- May '08 & March '09: Chennai, India
- Fall '07 trip: London, Paris & Normandie
- Summer '06 trip: cycling Brittany
- Spring '05 & '06 trips: chasing the Tour de Georgia
- Summer '04 trip: Colorado cycling in Estes Park and Ft. Collins areas
- Summer '02 trip: Cycling the Connemara region of Ireland
- Summer '01 trip: The Italian Cycling Center
- Summer
2K trips: Chasing the Giro
d'Italia around the Alps (6/00);
then kayaking the Na Pali coastline of Kauai (7/00) - Chasing the Tour de France around the Pyrennes (7/99)
- Australia (11/96)
- India and Nepal (11/98)
