| I grew up in Amherst, a college town in western
Massachusetts. I earned a degree in astronomy from Amherst College, discovered
that this was of doubtful remunerative value, and wound up writing software
for a living. In the process I attended my first filksing at Boskone in
1985; in my later twenties I learned to play the guitar, courtesy of a
roommate with a guitar and _Rise Up Singing_. I spent five years in exile
in Texas for employment reasons, hanging out in my spare time with folk
and filk musicians and playing in Irish sessions. I came back to New England
in 1996 and drifted into the orbit of MASSFILC--that's how I met my wife,
Robin Holly. I write a song every two or three years as the spirit moves
me. Nowadays I live in Nashua, NH with Robin, our 4000+ books, a lot of
model trains, and the cutest cat in the entire world. |
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