In addition to an abiding affection for all things related to the Emergency Services community, I love to ski and to travel (which explains my membership in the Pentagon Ski Club, where I get to do both), as well as cooking, and spending time with my wife and two beautiful daughters.

And, of course, I love to read. If I had to pick a single favorite genre, I guess it would be science fiction/fantasy, but I also enjoy spy and political thrillers, historical fiction, philosophy, biographies and memoirs, and the occasional classic (in other words, just about anything). Please note that the books listed on my bookshelf below do not necessarily reflect my reading preferences, as I have registered a large number of books just for release.

Live in the Washington, DC, metro area? Please join BC in DC , the Yahoo group for the BookCrossers in DC, Northern Virgina and Suburban Maryland. We meet about once a month at various locations around the area. We'd love to have you join us!

Visiting Washington, DC? The members of BC in DC would love to get together with you while you are in town. Visit our BCinDC bookshelf and send us a PM!.

BookCrossing and BCinDC were featured in an article in the Style section of the Washington Post on 11 August 2009! Read the article here.

• Expanding My Horizons: An unexpected benefit of BookCrossing, 18 Feb. 2004
  
• Wild Observations: Watching People React to Wild Releases, 13 May 2004
  
• The Secret Lives of Books: What stories are your books telling you?, 08 Nov. 2005
  
• Following the Undocumented Travels of a Book in the Wild: How my Daughter Became a Wild Book Spotter, 04 Jan. 2006
  
• Rolling out the Releases: Bringing BookCrossing to the White House Easter Egg Roll, 25 April 2006
  
• Hooking a New Reader: How BookCrossing Indirectly Feeds a New Addiction, 24 Oct. 2006
  
• Is there life after Lost & Found? Good news for books released on Disney property (and elsewhere), 15 Jan. 2007
  
• Reading Role Models: Who Taught You to Appreciate Reading?, 14 Feb. 2007
  
• Radio Free BookCrossing: Promoting the convention on Charleston radio, 05 June 2007
  
• Recruiting an Author: A BookCrossing Introduction, 06 July 2007
  
• Rescuing a Release: A rough beginning for "Rough Waters", 02 Aug. 2007
  
• You might be a BookCrosser if... Ten ways to tell if you are addicted to BookCrossing, 04 Dec. 2007
  
• Giving away books in Kensington, Maryland: BC in DC celebrates the International Day of the Book, 07 May 2008
  
• A Book Thing Road Trip: The DC BookCrossers invade Baltimore, 22 June 2008
  
• The Wide World of BookCrossing: Experiencing the diversity of local BookCrossing meetings, 23 September 2008
  
• Remembering Becky: BookCrossers around the world celebrate the short life of my daughter, 25 May 2011
  
• Remembering MaryZee: BookCrossing loses an evangelist, 18 September 2012
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Note: I've tagged all of the books that are in my possession with their status. Please PM me if you are interested in any of them. If it is TBR, I will try to move it up it the pile and get it on its way. I won't part with my PC books permanantly, but I will consider loaning these on a case-by-case basis. Books tagged as RES are either part of a bookring/bookray, or else have already been promised to someone.