I am one of the founders of All Positive Options, an addiction and recovery site. I'm also the author of a dictionary for the "Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous, which is now distributed world-wide. I'm currently writing another book which will be published late in 2008 called "The Recovery Of Desire." I chose that title, because one of the things you lose to addiction is your desire for anything else other than what you're addicted to. And I know that feeling intimately, and I know what it takes to recover the desire for life again, I've been doing it for over seven years.

I read (voraciously) I love British mysteries, almost everything on PBS, and nature and science shows. In college I almost changed my major from business to anthropology until I saw that anthropologists were usually poor, and it seemed liked growing a beard was almost mandatory in that line of work.

I've played the guitar all my life, was in several bands when I was younger, taught guitar while going through university and still play almost every day. And I'm not a fan of games like Guitar Hero. A guitar hero to me is John Mayer, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Clapton, Domenic Miller (Sting's lead guitarist) Neil Finn, and other people like that. Not some overweight kid in his parent's basement with a little plastic guitar trying to press buttons down to the song "Mississippi Queen."

I also hate shows like American Idol, and 99% of other so-called "reality" shows, where the underlying theme is humiliation. At least to me.

And that's a bit about me.

Guitar, reading, mysteries, plus way too many others to list.