I was born on Morton Street in Greenwich Village, New York. At that time, within close proximity dwelt a disproportionate concentration of the world's prominent artists, writers and assorted intelligentsia.

My parents recognized that this was an unsuitable environment in which to raise a child. When I was a year old, they moved us to the suburbs.

They were thus able to shield me from geniuses for more than seventeen years. I am grateful. Who knows what might have resulted had I, an impressionable youth, chanced to encounter e.e. cummings or Marcel Duchamp on the way to the grocery store.

Well, I've reluctantly had to concede (to myself) that I'll never be famous or even notable in a minor way, never rich or even modestly well-off. So what else to do but create a blog!