Oh, you are curious, aren't you? 

family...

My beautiful wife Stephanie, my blessed boys Liam Sage & Rowan Skye and daughter Elowen Juniper Gael, our cats Lavender, Kittywampus, Pandemonium & Starry Nightshade, and our weasels Pixie and Fen.

instruments I play...

Guitar (electric & acoustic, though, shamefully, I'm a better electric guitarist than acoustic)

Bamboo Flute

Bamboo Pan Pipes

Native American Flute (mine's sassafras)

Laptop Dulcimer (alas, for I no longer have one...)

Didgeridoo

Various Hand Drums & Percussives

I also sing in my car with gusto, but am way to self conscious to belt it out when anyone's around... maybe someday I'll get over that.  Someone once asked me if there might be an herb or flower essence for such trepidatiousness... methinks that probably a fermented or perhaps even distilled elixir, in liberal dosage, would be most effective.

personal oddities...

I have this weird repulsion to long forks, and try not to use them

deeply adored punctuation...

semicolons (;), ellipses (...), and parentheses (()).  Liberal use of well placed commas is a nice touch, too...

things I will never do...

I will never EVER use those awful abbreviations people use when they write emails.  No one will at any time see an email from me making an acronym of "laughing out loud".  Ever.  I also have no plans on ever texting.  So that's why I didn't text you back.

favorite writers...

J. R. R. Tolkien

Theodore Roethke

Nathaniel Hawthorne (young goodman brown is such a good story...)

Dale Pendell

Wendell Berry

John Crowley's little, big & Ka!

J. K. Rowling

Catherynne Valente

e.e. cummings

Susanna Clarke
Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves

bands & music...

Kansas (Steve Walsh is probably my favorite singer ever)

Fates Warning
The Bothy Band

Owain Phyfe

Yes & Jon Anderson's Solo stuff (his earth mother earth totally rules)

Natalie Merchant

Wobbler
Cusan Tan

Haken

Tori Amos

John Mellancamp

Jethro Tull

Omnia

Native American Flute (Robert Mirabal & Bill Miller did a great album called Native Suite)

Queensryche

Rising Appalachia

artists I dig...

Steve Baibak (a good friend whose creative virtues, quite frankly, are flabbergasting...)

Brian Froud

Andy Goldsworthy

Gary Larson (no less a genius than Goldsworthy...)

best movies...

My Dinner with Andre

Mindwalk

Evil Dead II (yes, really...)

Before Sunrise

Smoke Signals
Wander Darkly

Orlando

American Beauty

The Grand Canyon

yes, I do watch TV sometimes...

Star Trek(s)

Xena
Orphan Black
Dr. Who
Mr. Robot

Brother Cadfael (it was on PBS... a show about an herbalist monk, how could it not rule?)
Sens8

The Muppet Show

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Looney Tunes (especially wile e. coyote)

Rocky & Bullwinkle

hmm... I'm done for now; I'll add more later (maybe) when I'm in one of these moods where I feel like I should update something but don't want to think too hard...