Thanks to a random YouTube encounter in the fall of 2023, I became fascinated with regenerative agriculture, and in particular sheep. Why sheep? Well, I’d been eating grass-fed meat for years, so it was natural that I would take an interest in how my food is produced. Cows are fine and all, but … if a sheep steps on my foot, I can just laugh and nudge it off. Following up on my curiosity, I took off for Vermont in early 2024 and was soon immersed in the magical experience that is spring lambing. Just a day after my return, by some stroke of good fortune and unusual traffic patterns, Google Maps rerouted me onto a road that I normally would not have taken; I drove past Willow Creek Farm Preserve and saw … sheep! Very close to home! I had already begun suffering from Sheep Withdrawal, so the very next day, I went to check the place out—and here we are …

Outside of work … I’ve dabbled in many nerdy things, but at the moment, I’m putting as much time as I can muster into writing a fantasy novel. 

Favorite veggie … the mighty onion! Admittedly, as a longtime low-carber, I never met a veggie I couldn’t do without; nevertheless, I can appreciate the onion’s contribution to the worthy cause of flavoring my meat.

Favorite book … If pressed, I suppose I can pare it down to three: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, the Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis, and Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments by Johannes Climacus, pseudonym of Søren Kierkegaard.

Fun fact … Once upon a time, I relieved my boredom in high-school social studies class by transliterating my notes into the Cyrillic alphabet. Years later, I still remember how to pronounce most of the letters, so I guess I got something out of it.