About

I’m a player of fiddle and banjo, smith of words and tunes, designer of webpages and sewer lines (and houses and documents and...), DIY carpenter and fiddle tinkerer, builder of houses and (reluctant) auto mechanic, proponent of visual literacy and elegant language, advocate for peace and racial justice, episodic didact and darn good listener, gentler of wild horses and lover of comics.

I’ve never met a stringed instrument I didn’t like, a well-turned phrase that didn’t give me pleasure, or a recipe that couldn’t benefit from more garlic (well, not cupcakes… usually). I’m prone to peculiar enthusiasms (e.g., bow re-hairing) and I’ve been known to buy something I didn’t need simply because it was exquisitely well-designed. My definition of a good book is one I’m not rewriting in my head as I read. As a recent escapee from academia—where I got the chops (and the nerve) to call myself a student of people making music—I’ve been editing academic articles, dissertations, fundraising brochures, and even a novel, while learning to code.

I'm putting together CounterCoup2017 as a resource for resistance the #45 and his malevolent junta because I'd like to live in a world in which people care about and respect each other, even the rageful narcissists among us. Caring about and respecting ourselves and others requires resolutely interrupting and defusing the destructive acting out of rageful narcissists, wherever we find them. This is resistance.