(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, am the lead of the Building Maintenance Circle (hah!), member of Marketing Circle (hence the blog + marketing emails), member of Building & Grounds, 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.
• Current reading: The Field House, a biography of the writer Rachel Field.
• On TV: We finished and enjoyed “Margo’s Got Money Troubles.” I’m looking forward to starting “How to Get to Heaven from Belfast,” from the creator of “Derry Girls.”
• 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.

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

Updated: 2026-08-07