{"id":1750,"date":"2011-04-18T00:46:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T00:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelwagstaff.wordpress.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-06-04T22:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:25:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:20px;padding-right:max(1.25rem, 8vw);padding-bottom:max(1.25rem, 8vw);padding-left:max(1.25rem, 8vw);min-height:100vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#023866\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\"><nav style=\"color: #febf4b;background-color: #023866;\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-small-font-size is-responsive items-justified-right wp-block-navigation 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I live in Eugene, Oregon with my wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/teaching.uoregon.edu\/about\/tep-staff-directory#:~:text=Laurel%20Bastian,-Associate%20Director\">Laurel Bastian<\/a>, and our son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-f457fd3adbe6faaac4d297263c043b7c\"><strong>What I&#8217;ve done:<\/strong> Before joining Pressbooks, I spent most of my adulthood teaching in and supporting others who teach in universities. I&#8217;ve also worked as a land surveyor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-419d1aeb7c3fd3699b84e0c2fcdbe265\"><strong>What I love:<\/strong>\u00a0Being a father &amp; partner &amp; friend. Reading poetry (especially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theobjectivists.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the &#8216;Objectivists&#8217;<\/a>),\u00a0listening to good <a href=\"https:\/\/music.steelwagstaff.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">music<\/a>, visiting libraries, playing pickup soccer, eating vegetarian food. 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