About steward

Ah, the dreaded Personal Information Page... or in this case Personal Information subsite!

Well, a lot of things are in those links on the left. As for the rest:

I read a lot. Books I particularly recommend (in alphabetical order by title) include:

Books I've recently read include:

• Mouse's Folly, by T. Thorn Coyle
• Game of Crones, by Amanda M. Lee
• Freaky Wedding, by Amanda M. Lee
• On With the Dance! A Review, by Ambrose Bierce
• Make Yourself, by D. R. Perry
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce
• A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky, by Ambrose Bierce
• The Damned Thing, by Ambrose Bierce
• The Ocean Wave, by Ambrose Bierce
• The Fourth Estate, by Ambrose Bierce
• The Parenticide Club, by Ambrose Bierce
• The Man Who Wasn't There, by Niall Teasdale
• Secret Session Speeches, by Winston Churchill
• Battlemage Redux, by Theophilus Monroe; Michael Anderle
• Arcane Attitude, by Theophilus Monroe; Michael Anderle
• Sorcerer's Playground, by Theophilus Monroe; Michael Anderle
• Witching on the Job, by Amanda M. Lee
• Quantum Claus, by Ava L. Bishop; Autumn Tempest
• Crone Cold Dead, by Amanda M. Lee
• The Secret's In The Sauce, by Amanda M. Lee
• Anything With Nothing, by Mercedes Lackey
• Perilous Potions, by Amanda M. Lee
• Making It So, by Sir Patrick Stewart
• Valdemar, by Mercedes Lackey
• Jewels of Darkover, by Deborah J. Ross

Books I'm currently reading include:

• Demons of Good and Evil, by Kim Harrison
• The Pixie Squad, by Martha Carr; Michael Anderle
• Cast the First Crone, by Amanda M. Lee
• Close Encounters of the Witchy Kind, by Amanda M. Lee
• Story of O, by Pauline Reage
• The Temple and the Stone, by Katherine Kurtz; Deborah Turner Harris
• Mouse's Fight, by T. Thorn Coyle
• Being Around, by D. R. Perry
• Whatever it Takes, by Martha Carr; Michael Anderle

Authors I particularly recommend include:

My favorite musical pieces / songs include:

• Let the River Run by Carly Simon;
• The Main Theme from Star Trek: First Contact;
• Squire Wood's Lamentation on the Refusal of his Halfpence by Turlough O'Carolan;
• The Fifth Movement of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony;
• The The Water is Wide (English trad.);
• The Ninth Enigma Variation ("Nimrod") by Sir Edward Elgar; and
• Arise, my Love by Deirdre Ní Chinnéide.

The Q-Link Contact and Memories site, which I am webspinner of, was featured in an article in USA Today. (On Q-Link, I was known as JohnD39, and I still use that ID in some places on the web such as Yahoo!Groups.)

Click here for an explanation of the name "steward" itself.

When the whim takes me, I write poetry and short pieces of prose, available here.

My thesis for my Masters of Arts degree in Professional Studies consisted of a Media Guide for a small non-profit organization, with notes appended so that any NPO of similar size and needs can readily adapt the Guide to their use. Click here for more information and to download the Guide and notes.

Click here for my current Amazon wishlist.

Professional Affiliations:

• Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals
• Association for Computing Machinery
• IEEE
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology

Miscellaneous Interests:

• Reiki Master;
• ABMP Certified Massage Therapist (NJ Lic # 18KT00514100);
• Reclaiming- and Feri- Trained Eclectic Witch;
• Minister, Universal Life Church. 

I am employed as a senior business analyst / software architect by the State of New Jersey. Previously, I've worked as a systems analyst/programmer in the field of medical equipment billing software.

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