Caving, hiking, reading, gardening, gaming, saving the planet

House of Dark Shadows, Night of Dark Shadows, Phantasm, The Others, Brazil, Gormenghast, Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, The Haunting (original), Alien, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Dark Star, Silent Running, Solaris, Lord of the Rings, The Shining, Quatermass and the Pit, Harry Potter, A Christmas Story, Zardoz, Haunted, The Hunger, Forbidden Planet, The Dark Crystal, Napoleon Dynamite, Dark City, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Nonfiction (science & history), H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, E.F. Benson, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, Titus Groan, J.R.R. Tolkien, Algernon Blackwood, Stanislaw Lem, Frank Herbert, Dune, Heart of Darkness

Evanescence, Midnight Syndicate, Danny Elfman, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Eagles, Queen, Styx, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Pink Floyd, Loreena McKennitt, Stabbing Westward, Asia, Abba... OK, I said it, ABBA -- what can I say, I was a child of the 70s ;-)

I'm a lover of art and science, a student of nature and technology, an aficionado of fact, fiction, and folklore. "Eclectic" (and probably "strange") generally describes my tastes...

I have a B.S. degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Alabama and a Master of Public Administration degree in Urban Planning & Policy Analysis from UAB, where I am currently in the Interdisciplinary Engineering Ph.D. program.

I am married to Beverly Cox of Hoover. We live in Helena, AL (near Birmingham) with our "fuzzy children" Henry (the Cocker Spaniel) and cats Nutmeg, Josie, and Mollie.

Ecology, environmental stewardship, leadership, fantasy, sci-fi, ghost stories, mazes & labyrinths, gargoyles, dragons