When not involved with professional practice, I spend my off-hours reading about history and geography, being involved in the community, sampling craft beers and cocktails at my favorite dimly lit bars, and exploring new places from the side streets of London and the alleys of Tokyo to the national parks of the American West. I have an insatiable compulsion to always check out what’s over the next horizon, and I hope to someday purchase an Airstream travel trailer and spend at least a few weeks on the road each year exploring North America.
I maintain a strong interest in trains and transit. I’m a former volunteer at the Illinois Railway Museum and have operated a New York subway train and a Chicago ‘L’ train. In 2016 I served on the leadership team of Seattle Subway, a local advocacy group that successfully pushed for the Sound Transit 3 ballot initiative, a $54 billion expansion of light rail, commuter rail, and express bus service throughout the Puget Sound region. Whenever I visit a major city, I always make a point to explore as much of its metro system as I reasonably can.
I love atmospheric movies by the Coen brothers, Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Jim Jarmusch, and other talented filmmakers. As a child of the 1980s, I grew up with Star Wars and Indiana Jones. My favorite cinematic experiences include watching the premiere of Blade Runner: The Final Cut at New York’s Ziegfeld Theater and Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odessey in 70mm format at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theater.
At home or in the car, I enjoy listening to music by diverse artists such as Pink Floyd, Echo & The Bunnymen, Simple Minds, The Psychedelic Furs, Massive Attack, M83, Aphex Twin, and the occasional Wu-Tang Clan. My randomized, ever-growing “Mix Tape” playlist has over a thousand songs at last count. Every year since 2022, I’ve joined about 30,000 Dave Matthews Band fans for the annual “Labor Dave” weekend at The Gorge Ampitheater overlooking the magnificent Columbia River.
