Note: This web page has not been recently updated (except for this notice) and is kept primarily for historical interest. Links and contact information are probably out of date. What you are probably really looking for might be found at one of these pages: Berch on Food, my food and travel writing BerchLaw, my law practice page My LiveJournal My Flickr photo page My Wikipedia user page

"we don't trade money here
we trade information and skin."
-- nicole blackman, "the ambitions are"

You were expecting the type of compulsive autobiography that one comes across on people's Web pages, weren't you? Well, be patient -- I am assembling a set of fictional selves to intermingle with the real one, so that the reader can, in the best tradition of postmodernism, construct the author, in the same way that the author constructs the reader.

In the meantime, you can go over to the navigation frame on the left, click on the icon of the guy leaning on the inflatable raft, and get a more recent photo of me and, I suppose, a grudging few words of personal content.

If you insist, you can still access the really old page, complete with its collection of wheezy old links, many of which are out of date. And if you somehow got here and don't have a frame-capable browser, (or just don't like frames) there's a non-frame version too.

Patti Smith rules, but you knew that.

(Remember -- the owls are not what they seem.)