jim hale
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Government |
| Occupation | Writer-Editor |
| Location | Juneau, Alaska |
| Introduction | Born and raised in New Jersey, I'm a former English prof; currently a writer for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration in Juneau. Father to the Lovely & Infuriating Five: Jamie, Harry, Katie, Ben, and Mary. Husband to my Better Half, Jeannie. Twin brother to my other Better Half, Judy. (Okay, so math was never my forte.) |
| Interests | The older I get the more I think that there are only two things that matter: love and art. |
| Favorite Movies | The Third Man. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. Duck Soup. |
| Favorite Music | Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Guillaume Machaut. Nathan Milstein's later recordings of Bach's violin sonatas. Gregorian Chants. |
| Favorite Books | Augustine's Confessions. Shakespeare's plays. Heinrich Boll's Irish Journal. Joyce's Ulysses. Teilhard de Chardin's Hymn of the Universe. Thomas Merton's Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander. Favorite poets: Horace, Chaucer, John Skelton, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Alexander Pope, Robert Browning, Charlotte Mew, Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Robert Lowell. |