I teach and write in California’s Deep Northwest.
I’m interested in ecological discourse, cartoons and ceramics.
I drink red wine and Double IPAs and homebrewed ginger beer.
I live with artists, musicians and video gamers,
Canines, felines, reptiles and a fat furry rodent.

My working definition of preference
Hedonism – “the view that the best
Life consists in maximizing the life
Of pleasures one would prefer most
If one could have experienced all the alternatives.”
From my unpublished essay: “Substantive Good Theories &
Neostoic Grief Over Doom-Nation in
An Object-Ridden World” (2004).