+ABOUT
THE AUTHOR+
The
author of PLATFORM
SHOES is a 40 year-old
guy who was born in
Arlington, Virginia,
and has lived in the following states: Virginia,
California,
Texas,
Connecticut,
Ohio, Montana,
and Rhode Island.
He moved to Rhode Island IN 2000, after meeting the love of his
life there.
His
interests include baseball, cats,
books, music, and paintings.
He has followed, in turn, the Texas
Rangers, the New York Mets, the Los
Angeles Dodgers, the Baltimore Orioles, and the Boston Red Sox.
He lives in a house with 11 cats: Topanga
(a silly, mostly-white
fluffball whose tail [and the sunglasses on her head] renders her,
strictly speaking, a calico); Junipurr, who mostly resembles Topanga;
Eliza Jane (petite, cute, gray
& white,
skittish); Lizzie
(fluffy, multicolored,
and less skittish than she used to be); Frisky
(tall, lean, black
& white, loving,
playful, mischievous); Frisky
Knight (a large, all-gray,
long-haired, friendly cat); T. T. Magumba (a
chubby, striped,
clownish sort of cat); Harley (black, sturdy, skittish); Ringeaux (multicolored,
somewhat nondescript); Jasmine
(half-Siamese -- maternal to everyone except Frisky Knight); and
Sally (gray, black, brown, and recuperating
from an accident), our newest kitty.
And, not to be forgotten, good friends of days
gone by: Cricket,
Vicky, Samantha, Tiger, Ben,
Shenanigans, Hassenfeffer, and Matilda.
Some of his favorite books include: The Sherlock
Holmes
short stories and novels; Blue
Highways; Numerous Anne Tyler
novels;
books about The
English Language;
Billboard's
books about pop music charts;
numerous British novels
-- of late, Jane
Austen; and books about The U. S.
Manned Space Program.
Howards
End is one of his favorite dramatic
films and one of his favorite novels.
He has enjoyed the music of The
Beatles,
Tchaikovsky,
Chopin,
Bach,
and Aaron
Copland,
along with a lot of 70's
pop music and a lot of other pop/rock music, too {lately
the Goo Goo
Dolls}.
His favorite pop music voice of all time belongs to the late, great Karen
Carpenter.
He also
loves paintings,
particularly those by John
Singer Sargent,
Monet,
Rembrandt,
and Lilla
Cabot Perry.