To say I am diverse would be a gross understatement. I love life, i savor every minute of every day and i have been lucky enough to experience my dreams come true. I am with my wife since she was 16 now shes 41 - 25 years together seems like seconds. She is my one and only love and soulmate - my best friend, my partner in business, the object of every debaucherous desire. The children we made together and are now raising is a dream unto itself. Not easy but always fulfilling - each an individual but i clearly see parts of me in them - sometimes too much. Our life since we moved to Oregon from Texas has been full of dreams being realized from all of us learning to snowboard to our farm to seeing 9 snowy peaks of The Cascade Mountains so huge in front of us - its beyond description to an Italian kid from Manhattan.

Interests
All aspects of sustainable living, horseback riding, reptile ecology, cars/harleys and 4x4 trucks from the 40s/50s/60s, sailing, snowboarding, snowcats, woodworking, welding, fishing/hunting, the list goes on and on.

Favorite Books
Sometimes A Great Notion, The Winds Of War, War & Rememberance, Alas Babylon, The Good Like, Back To The Sea, Earth Abides, On The Road, Dharma Bums, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, The Doors Of Perception, Common Sense, The Anti Federalist Papers, East Of Eden etc etc etc. I havent read a novel in many years. I still read but usually technical papers and scientific papers - information that directly applies to the projects i am doing. Or books on various psychology topics and specializations. but mostly i read tractor shop manuals as i didnt get a lot of exposure to balers and swathers and plows in manhattan!

Favorite Authors
Steinbeck, Kesey, Uris, Michener - i gravitate to historical fictions when i read - but i dont that much anymore.

Favorite Movies
I dont watch tv anymore but The Lords Of Flatbush was top 5 as was Easy Rider, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without A Cause, Giant , Heaven Help Us East Of Eden

Favorite Music
Having grown up in NYC and also just outside South Philadelphia - i was exposed to a shitload of obscure rocking doowop that u just dont hear anywhere else. I also am fairly well versed with classical music but dont listen to it ever anymore. My main music is Bob Marley and i acquire not only his studio music but even better his live and studio practice recordings. He had it down.