Occupation:

I build web projects for non-profits. I am a web professional emeritus, retired from the State University of New York at Fredonia.

Interests:

Deeply curious about many ideas and perspectives, I made a list, bit.ly/fav-ted-talks, which includes a TED Talk by Scott McCloud offering his method to find out what MAY be, in the future:

1. Learn from everyone.
2. Follow no one.
3. Watch for patterns.
4. Work like hell.

Perspectives:

Following Quaker traditions and Buddhist teachings, I am an anti-fascist pacifist. I am opposed to coercive economic and political systems. I am opposed to all acts and threats of violence.

Always have been.
Always will be antifa.
🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 ally.

Activism:

• 1982 World Peace March, Irving NY
• 1990 No War in Iraq, Buffalo NY
• 1990 No War in Iraq, DC
• 1992 Indigenous People's Day, DC
• 1999 Stop Bombing Iraq, Berkeley CA
• 2003 Four Directions March, Denver CO
• 2006 World Can’t Wait, NYC
• 2011 Occupy Fredonia NY
• 2011 Occupy Buffalo NY
• 2012 Occupy Congress DC
• 2013 Nuke-Free Cattaraugus Creek Walk
• 2014 U.N. People's Climate March NYC
• 2017 Women's March, Buffalo NY
• 2018 Women's March, Buffalo NY
• 2025 Nuke-Free Cattaraugus Creek Walk
• 2025 No Kings, Portland Maine
• 2025 No Kings, Buffalo NY
• 2025 No Kings, Olean NY

I am grateful to ALL of my teachers:

• my wife Laura
• our children, Lux & Francesca
• my parents, Faith & Arthur
• my in-laws, Tricia & Winston
• my siblings, Chandra & Jeremy
• my grandmother, Margery “Mor Mor” Busck Weierbach
• Grandmother Twylah Nitsch
• Grandmother ChoQosh Au'ho'oh
• International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
• Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge
• YFNA Quakers
• Buddhists
• Unitarian Universalists
• Oren Lyons
• Miguel Sague, Jr.
• Peace Pilgrim
• Thích Nhất Hạnh
• Jun-san Yasuda
• Rumi
• O-sensei Ueshiba
• Sojourner Truth
• Kahlil Gibran
• Marshall Rosenberg
• Richard Bach
• Robert Fulghum
• Buckminster Fuller
• Dr. Leonard Shlain
• Daniel Ellsberg
• Edward Snowden
• Chris Hedges
• Amy Goodman
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• Howard Zinn
• Noam Chomsky
• Ammon Hennacy
• Utah Phillips
• Dr. Patch Adams
• Naomi Klein
• John Francis
• Scott McCloud
• David Logan
• Raj Patel
• Francis Moore-Lappe
• Joanna Macy
• Dahr Jamail
• Dave Pollard
• Jason Box
• Derrick Jensen
• Richard Heinberg
• James Hansen
• Lester Brown
• Guy McPherson
• George Monbiot
• Peter Gzowski
• Tara Cullis
• David Suzuki
• Severn Cullis-Suzuki
• Greta Thunberg
• Toby Hemenway
• Marina Abramović
• Laurie Anderson
• Spalding Gray
• Anaïs Mitchell
• Olivia Dean
• Ani DiFranco
• Michael Franti
• Nahko & Medicine for the People
• Stan Rogers
• Dan Berggren
• Marlo Thomas
• Tom Lehrer

…and:

• Robert Doherty
• Don Weinhart
• Tom Lacagnina
• Fred Tschida
• Bill Parry
• Joe Davis
• Diane Clark & Bill Moran
• Marv Bjurlin
• Tina Rausa
• Chris Benton
• Cathy Hunt & Mick Griffin
• Ron Peterson
• Steve Taylor
• Bob Holland & Dorothy Foigelman
• Taylor & Mary Pancoast
• John & Sue Siskar
• Maggie Ruckman
• Fred ‘Ferd’ Larson
• Dadie Sedota
• Deane Miner & Amy Pyrka
• Daniel Murphy, Jr.
• Peet Sasaki
• Angelique & Bob Irvin
• Lee Gorton & Jaeson Paul
• David Faulkenberry
• Cassie Smith
• Paul Ford
• Jean, Leslee, Beth & Jackie Goodman
• Bruce Kincheloe
• Eric Kaiser
• Bura Virgil Lawson
• Sarah Ewalt
• Cindy Laun
• Jamie Hurt
• Greg Swingle
• Glenn Wahl
• Peter Tucker
• Patty Herkey
• Erin Ehman
• Andrea Wasiura
• Lori & Rob Deemer
• Michelle & Melanie Sudyn
• Richard Prince
• Paul Jackino
• Brandon Perdomo
• Janey Wagner
• Jessamine, Jeremy & all the Daly-Griffins

...and so many other ne'er-do-wells and assorted riff-raff.