(This is a now page, inspired by Derek Sivers’ now page.)

I live in Durham, NC, now retired as a contract software technical writer for a federal agency.

• Busy working with my neighbors on Bull City Commons, a cohousing community that we self-developed and self-manage. I write and maintain the Bull City Commons Blog, member the Building Maintenance Circle, Building & Grounds Circle, and Marketing Circle (hence the blog), help maintain the public website and internal Google Sites intranet pages, manage the Service Requests form for non-emergency requests from residents, serve as an internal facilitator for our Plenary meetings, and am on Team D for our quarterly team-cleaning program. Is that a lot? It sounds like a lot.
• Books: Trent’s Last Case, a “classic” murder mystery by E.C. Bentley, though I’m finding it hard going.
• TV: Really enjoying “American Classic,” by the creators of the wonderful Canadian series “Slings and Arrows.” Also, “Ted Lasso” and we’re trying out “Alice and Steve.”
• Movies: We’re going to see Late Fame tomorrow. Recently seen: Remake (layered, sad documentary from Ross McIlwee), The Odyssey (for a 3hr movie it moves like a bullet, but Matt Damon is too dour; whenever Damon’s Odysseus acts with hubris, he’s out of key with the rest of his performance).
• Using a 3x/week kettlebell workout (Kettlebell Burn 2.0 by Geoff Neupert) at the Duke Fitness Center. Putting the workout on the calendar and actually going to DFC are helping me stay consistent.
• Creative projects: none at the moment.
• Business of Life projects: signing up for Medicare, resetting my YNAB money management categories for a fresh start

I can be contacted at brownstudy+microblog at the domain gmail.com.

Updated: 2026-09-04