All About Me

Num Me Vexo?

Who Is This Guy?

• A Farsoonerite
• An Ancient and Itinerant Student of All Things That Make Sense (Usually)
• BoyWhoWonders or ManWhoWanders
• A Kentuckian By Birth and By Ingrained Memories
  (Filtered through Steuben County and Broome County, New York, genes)
• A Michigander By Virtue of My Education and Upbringing
• A Washingtonian By Choice
• A Tolstoy Farmer Emeritus Who Suffers From Canyon Fever
• A  very Reluctant Seattleite

People that I care about:

My Friends' Children:

• The Mitchnick Girls: Tanya, Melanie, Mara, and Natasha
  
• The Cooper Girls: Marilyn, Karen, Sheree, and Lisa
  
• Zoe Tucker-Borrut and Eli Tucker-Borrut

My Friends:

• Harriett Bradlin Mitchnick: mother of the Cooper Girls and the Mitchnick Girls
  
  • Note: Harriett died on 20 Sep 2007 at age 77; see a Tribute to her Here
• Gary Frederickson and Sharon Langs: my surrogate family
• The Tucker-Borrut family:
  • Katy Tucker (Sharon's daughter)
  • Nathalie Borrut
  • Zoë Tucker-Borrut (Katy's daughter) b. 11 Feb 1999
  • Eli Tucker-Borrut (Nathalie's son) b. 16 Nov 2004
• Lee Tucker (Sharon's daughter) and Paul Therriault
• Susan Russell and Carl McMinimy
• My Vietnamese 'sister', Thoa Mills, & her husband Ken Mills
• My Friends at  Tolstoy Farm
• The Custodial Crew at the UW Student Union Facility (the HUB) and South Campus Center

My Relatives:

• My nieces and nephews:
  • Daughter of my brother Henry Eugene Flanery:
    • Rhea Ann Flanery
  • Children of my brother Grandison LaGrange Flanery:
    • Rhea Flanery Chavez, and her family
    • Lela Flanery Heinekin
    • Lila Flanery Linson, and her family
    • Grandison LaGrange ("Gucci") Flanery, and his family
    • David Flanery & his family

What I have a Passion for:

My Family's History

Wildflowers:

• Penstemons
• Wildflowers of Mill Creek Canyon and Harker Canyon in Lincoln County, Washington
• Wildflowers of Hawk Creek Canyon in Lincoln County, Washington
• Wildflowers of the Columbia River  Gorge and the Columbia  Basin
  (The Main Page for the these two sites is  Here)

Places:

• The Mill Creek Canyon Complex of Lincoln County, WA
• The Hawk Creek Canyon Complex of Lincoln County, WA
• The Martin and Maytown (aka Langley) Areas of Floyd County, KY

Language and Literature:

• Finnegans Wake
• The Online Book Initiative
• Old English Literature
• The Symbolist Poets
• The Art of Language (usually aka 'Rhetoric')
• Word Origins and the History of Languages
• Word Puzzles and Games
• The Egyptian Language & Hieroglyphics
• The Irish Language
• The Welsh Language
• Mysteries
• 'Mystery' on PBS

Music: