This page contains a comprehensive list of my memberships and interests. This is for publishers and authors who are looking for an experienced indexer with specific knowledge.
Memberships
I am a current or recent past member of the following organizations (non-current memberships are that way because I am conserving my finances this year):
- Former member at the Senior Fellow level of the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE), an ultra-high-IQ society.
- Recent past member, Society for Technical Communication (STC).
- Past member, The American Society of Indexers (ASI).
- Past member, American Rose Society. I love roses, and have about 50 rose bushes.
- Member, the Smithsonian Institution.
- Past member, California Rare Fruit Growers Association.
- Lifetime Member, National Rifle Association (NRA). I’m a very gentle person with high ideals. However, I feel quite strongly about preserving the rights and freedoms we enjoy in America, and although I don't agree with everything they say and do, the NRA is one of the organizations taking steps to do so.
Interests
My interests and pastimes include the following, plus many more.
- Alternative energy sources (wind, solar)
- Alternative medicine
- Anthropology and archaeology (specialty areas: Northern, Central, and South American anthropology and archaeology; ancient Egypt)
- Beekeeping (I’m a former beekeeper)
- The Bible and other religious works
- Calligraphy
- Camping
- Cats
- Channeling and other psychic phenomena
- Children’s books
- Computers and software
- Constitutional rights
- Cooking
- Crossword puzzles
- Crystals in both a geologic sense and a New Age sense
- Embroidery, especially counted cross-stitch, and other sewing and stitchery (my first cross-stitch entry in the 2009 Sonoma County Fair won second place)
- Environmental issues
- Gardening
- Genealogy (an article, The Interface Between Genealogy and Indexing, was published as the keynote chapter in Genealogy and Indexing, a book in the American Society of Indexers’ series on indexing specialties)
- Genetics
- Geology
- Health
- History of playing cards
- Indexing
- Japanese language and culture
- Library science
- Medicinal herbs
- Metaphysics
- Movies
- Music
- Reading just about anything, on any topic
- Roses
- Science fiction and fantasy
- Shakespeare’s plays
- Software
- Web logs and other social networking tools
- White-water river rafting
- Writing: Short fiction, non-fiction, screenplays