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I live in New York City with my beautiful wife, Bess, and our 4-legged kids Cooper, Jackson, and Rufus. I am a musician and a creative force. I have played the piano since I was 4. I'm classically trained, flavored by jazz and popular music. I am an educator. Let's see, skills.... I can put together a cabaret, write a burnin' jazz big band chart, edit film (the real celluloid stuff), make the best cake you've ever eaten in your life, and design a marching band show. (Seriously.) I am just now figuring out what I want to do when I grow up. I love film and pop culture. I love good food and red wine; I am an amateur chef. I think that marijuana should be legalized and taxed. Vodka cannot be overrated. I have lived in Delaware, Pennsylvania, England, California, Alabama, and New York. New Orleans is my spiritual home -- Decadence and Decay -- long live Big Easy -- I celebrate her rebirth in the face of inconceivable bureaucratic mishandling. The citizens and landscape of our Gulf Coast have been treated with a lack of respect and humanity, and the deception continues. I believe that ignorance is surmountable, that an open mind is the key to enlightenment on many levels. We should be talking about Iraq and the Katrina debacle every day and figuring out what to DO. We are at our best when we actively seek to better ourselves. I miss my father every day, even though he has been gone for over 14 years. I love my wife, our boys, our families and friends. I love living in the great city of New York! I consider these things, and my serendipity, to be my personal fortune. There is little else that matters, either in life or in memory.