Welcome to my website, a place where I can finally link all my interests and—some would say—obsessions. I hope it will become a place where I can point readers and friends to essays and reports on a diversity of subjects. Of course, I also hope to showcase and present my books and other writing!

The site is laid out as follows:

• Author Bio and Books contains my writing biography and bibliography, as well as links and reviews to all my available books.
• Other Works will include recent essays, and, I hope, longer works in progress, as well as material unavailable elsewhere.
• Good Books will be a series of continuing reviews of what I am reading at the moment. I will also post reviews by friends.
• Good Food is self- evident, and will include recipes.
• Pursuit and Pursuits will obviously deal with falconry, coursing dogs, and hunting, but will also feature pigeon flying and breeding and maybe even the madness of book collecting and bonsai growing.
• Weapons and Tools includes fine shotguns and rifles but will also encompass other useful and esthetic objects, and may also feature "guest reviews".
• News from Tartary will attempt to cover all manner of news from Central Asia, that ancient and still vital region that is of modern strategic interest and is also probably the cradle of domestication and falconry; the place where the 15th Century meets the 21st, with some 20th Century Russia thrown in.
• Science deals mostly with my favorite fields, evolutionary biology and paleontology, with a little modern ecology thrown in (and no, I don't use that as a synonym for "conservation"). Evo/Bio was my first college major and I have never lost interest; my particular fascinations include human evolution and "travels," the descent of the domestic dog, the origin of birds, and the evolution of parasites. In Paleontology, my specific "areas" are the Pleistocene and its extinctions, and again, dog origins. Obviously the two categories above overlap. I also like bugs, especially beetles and bees.
• Finally, my BLOG is where I hope you will find regular updates and commentary.

I hope readers new and old will enjoy the site!