Interests include:

Violin,Piano,Guitar

Art (Renaissance particularily:

John William Waterhouse,

Dale Chihuly,Bouguereau, and

Thomas Cole among others)

My current "pleasure" reading consists or, did consist of the following...

The Illusion of the End, by Jean Baudrillard

The Breaking of Nations, by Robert Cooper

Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow,

John Adams, Spirit of Liberty by Bradley Thompson... and...

Love, Poverty and War

Of Paradise and Power, by Robert Kagan