Well it shouldn't be impossible for me to write a biography that is honest and satisfying and helpful and maybe even funny. But it is.

I am never entirely sure what to say, what details would be interesting and helpful and useful to you,
The Reader, you reader of these sentences and many others.


I am tallish. And curious. I am getting older.

Today at a shoe sale on 57th Street, because I was a few minutes early for a meeting I didn't really want to have with a woman who is successful, self-involved, and in the end interminably dull, today at a shoe sale I met a stranger, a Brazilian woman who teaches family sociology at Princeton. We had a happy conversation (about families, not shoes) for about 20 minutes.
I'll probably see her again.