Greetings from Los Angeles!!! Since 1991, I have been employed as a Professor of English & Humanities at California State University, Northridge. Originally born and raised in New York (from THE Island), I have been like totally living in like SoCal since like 1982. Awesome and rad, dudes.
Today, I teach several online courses and serve as Webmaster for the Humanities Interdisciplinary Program. I have also created a website for Children's Literature and Educational Resources, primarily for CSUN's future K-12 educators. Please visit me online or stop by my campus office. Must bring chocolate or Starbucks, fer shur.
Scroll down to find out more about me. Peace and joy!
Diamond Princess - Crossing the Tasman Sea
What Inspires Me:
"Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations." -- Paramahansa Yogananda
"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." -- Henry David Thoreau
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found I was really going in." -- John Muir
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” -- Joseph Campbell
“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” -- Carl Gustav Jung
"See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things." -- Lao-tzu (translation: Stephen Mitchell)
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; it brings us near to the infinite." -- Thomas Carlyle
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." --Plato
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost." -- J.R.R. Tolkien
"Let go your conscious self and act on instinct. Your eyes can deceive you. Don't trust them." -- "Obi-Wan" Ben Kenobi
“When you come to the fork in the road, take it. If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” -- Yogi Berra, Zen Master
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Tennis Warriors:
"We don't just hit it, we hit it hard!"
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Hockey Rules!!!
Ice Hockey Defined: "Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept."
- Doug Larson
Wayne Gretzky's Hockey Wisdom: "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
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My Causes: Live & Let Live
Save the Wolves!!!
On the Web: http://www.defenders.org/
On MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/defendersofwildlife
Hey, Pat! I don't know why I can't respond to messages-- the window just doesn't pop up =/ Anyway, I had a really nice time at BJ's. It was my first drink =] When are your office hours? I'd like to stop by!
