About

I live with my wife and daughter on the edge of Durham, North Carolina, in a small house on an acre and a quarter of mostly woods. I like living within easy reach of libraries, art museums, Thai food, interesting music and a good tattoo shop. I also like producing some of my own food and being able to walk out of my door into the woods. We built a nature trail through our woods, and from the middle of it I can almost not see my neighbors — my human neighbors, that is; I can see plenty of toads and squirrels and chickadees, and on a summer night the tree frogs and cicadas drown out the interstate. This spring we had the property certified as a wildlife habitat. You could say we’re in suburban Durham, but I prefer to think of myself as being on the margins.