May 17, 2013: Hello. Welcome to my personal website. You seem nice. I think I've finally figured out how to update this website on my new computer, so hopefully I'll be keeping it up to date from now on.
I've joined the Twitterverse, where, among other things, I'll be tracking Supreme Court laughs in real time (more or less) as we go through the term. You can follow me at @SCOTUSHUMOR. If you're coming here from Twitter and want to know what this SCOTUS humor thing is all about, click here.
I'm currently hard at work researching and writing a book for Beacon Press, tentatively entitled "God is Not Always Green: When Religious Practice and Environmentalism Collide." The research involves lots of travel to places around the country and the world where religious practices happen to have effects on the environment. As I go, I'll be writing some short pieces from time to time on my travels. Here are three:
A piece from National Geographic Newswatch on a tribal eagle aviary in Oklahoma.
A piece from a cool legal journal called The Green Bag on the National Eagle Repository in Colorado.
Anyway, thank you for visiting. By clicking on the links to the left, you can read some of my published stories, take a look at a few of my paintings, see a list of my published scholarly articles, find out where I'll be speaking and reading, view some videos I've made, learn about my pretty much Nobel Prize winning study of Supreme Court oral argument humor, and get a nice snack, among other things. You can also learn about my three published books:
Enjoy!