Dave – Lighter Stuff

Former Occupations:

• Soldier
• Computer Systems Developer
• Product Analyst
• Management Consultant
• Teacher (in grad school, and corp training)

Cities I've Lived (first to last):

• Chicago suburbs (Elk Grove Village)
• Champaign/Urbana, Illinois
• Blackpool, England
• Champaign/Urbana, Illinois
• Ft. Benning, Georgia
• Washington, DC
• Jacksonville, Florida
• Detroit, Michigan (Southfield, actually: Ten Mile & Telegraph)
• Dallas, Texas
• Kuwait City, Kuwait
• Manama, Bahrain
• Boulder, Colorado
• Denver, Colorado
• Coming soon, hopefully: NYC

Favorite Places I've Been (first to close-to-first):

• Vietnam (everything I saw: Hanoi, Hue, Saigon, Da Nang and trekking inland)
• Kulu Valley, India (Himachal Pradesh)
• Chiang Mai province, Thailand
• Fes el-Bali, Morocco
• Cairo (though I didn't get it till the second time)
• Scotland (including and especially the scuzzy parts around Glasgow)
• Prague
• St. Petersburg
• Mt. Chirripo (The summit of the continental divide in Costa Rica. Spectacular.)
• Manhattan
• Paris
• The cabin we built in Upper Michigan

Itching to Visit:

• Nepal
• Cambodia
• Kenya
• Indonesia
• Alaska
• Amazon
• China
• Sydney

Where I Wrote Columbine

This was my writing studio in Denver. I moved to NYC in July 2010. Very different place. Hahaha.

Other Places to Find Me:

• Facebook for Dave
• Facebook for Columbine, the book
• Twitter

Inspirations:

• J. D. Salinger
• Warren Zevon
• Vladimir Nabokov
• Laurie Anderson
• Denis Johnson
• Paul Bowles
• Harper Lee
• Randy Newman
• Ang Lee
• Truman Capote
• Ken Kesey
• Patti Smith
• David Lynch
• Gore Vidal
• Graham Parker
• Tom Wolfe
• Rickie Lee Jones
• William Faulkner
• Neil Young
• Brian Eno
• Lucia Berlin

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