me

I used to handle alligators.

Currently, I'm completing work on a collection of personal essays. It's called “My Mid-life Thong Crisis and Other True Stories About Bodies.”

I live and write in Portland, Oregon.

A professional head-shot is here.

"My mom is medium extra large. Her hair is black. She wears glasses. She likes to e-mail. She likes to read to me and play card games. She is good at games. She does special things with me." -Leo, age 5

"This is good, because now we have two clowns. Someday, when I die, you can each have a clown of your own."

-excerpt from On Having Clowns

I am in love with my dog.

This has not caused too many problems.

He is NOT, in fact, a Chinese Crested Hairless Mutt as we had thought for the last 12 years. We had his DNA checked during the pandemic and he is:

• • 52% Miniature Poodle

  • 25% Chihuahua

  • 23% Pomeranian

And the hairlessness, you ask? he has Alopecia.

His name is Calvin.