ABOUT
Who I am
Husband, father and writer — in that order. A degree in math and a 22-year career as a writer and editor at a midsize daily newspaper. Still able to find joy in plumbing the depth of my ignorance.
Why I do this
German physicist Werner Heisenberg once said: "The slow changes of human thought and desire have no less an impact on the external features of the world than great single events." As one of the fathers of nuclear technology, Heisenberg knew a thing or two about "great single events" and their power to shape the world. Men like Heisenberg are not given to hyperbole, so for him to essentially say that touching a heart can have the same impact on humanity as, say, leveling Hiroshima — that's a powerful statement. Given the abundance of ineffective and dangerous ideological architecture in the world, I'm out here trying to effect change with my own explosive, if recalcitrant, playthings: words.
Werner Heisenberg