I met my (then) future wife, Kim, on our first day at college.  We were married in her home town, St. James, New York, on June 11, 1994.  Kim died in January 2007 after a heroic battle with biliary cancer. I am grateful for every moment I had with her. On the left is a picture of us on Christmas Eve, 1999.

Kim and I were blessed with two kids, Sara (born in Sept. 2000) and Sean (born in Sept. 2004), who are the lights of my life.  They even have their own web page, mostly so friends and relatives from afar can keep track of them...though I haven't been as good at keeping it current recently. Sara loves soccer, doing crafts, riding her bike, and cooking - she can make cookies and pancakes herself from scratch! Sean isn't too far behind on cooking, and loves baseball and playing games.

Kim and I enjoyed traveling, especially to National Parks, and other nature-based destinations (though the kids slowed us down in recent years!).  Some of our favorite vacations were to Bryce, Zion, and the Grand Canyon; the Pacific Northwest; Lake Tahoe area and Yosemite; London and southern England; areas around Utrecht and Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Heidelberg (Germany), and Brugges (Belgium). Our favorite spot was Acadia National Park in "downeast" Maine.  The background picture on my this page is of The Bubbles in Acadia.

My main hobbies are music, hiking and cooking.  My favorite is hard-bop jazz from the 50s and the 60s, and surprisingly enough, my favorite artist is Miles Davis.  Of current players, my favorite is Roy Hargrove.  I also enjoy classical music, blues and pop...those who know me know my favorite pop group is They Might Be Giants, favorite rock artist is Mark Knopfler, and my favorite local blues group is The Racky Thomas Band, with my brother-in-law Todd Carson on bass.  I am also a fan of ska, and got to see Bim Skala Bim, the Toasters, and several other bands at the Binghamton Campus Pub as an undergraduate.  I also enjoy hiking, and have climbed most of the 4000 foot peaks in the White Mountains, including Mt. Washington. My favorite sport is Baseball. I am a lapsing Mets fan, and was fully initiated as a Red Sox fan when I watched them lose to the Yankees in the 2003 playoffs. I told my weeks-old son, "Sean, there's something you have to know now. The Red Sox will never, ever win the World Series," only (to my delight) to be proven wrong a year later. I have always been a Yankees detractor, partly because Red Sox fans go back several generations on my Mom's side.  I also like college basketball and football, where I always root for my Purdue Boilermakers.