Also Downstairs are Lobs and Volleys, some tales of pro tennis tournaments from a gay green foodie perspective, and the Journals, which are broken down chronologically and contain mostly humorous essays, but with some, here and there, serious. Journal entries focus on my interests, which have included over the years Indo-European languages, literature, farmers' markets, fine food, home food, recreational eating, the Segway (in my alter ego as Matte Gray, Senior Segwayer), the Prius, Haworthias, and social issues in San Francisco.

My travelogues are in the NoeHill Travel pages. See Blue Highways Lite, Dutch in Three Weeks, Amsterdam by Segway, Amsterdam by Foot, Feeding Amsterdam, Amsterdam for Free, and currently being posted, The Fall of Amsterdam.

I normally insert links at the appropriate point in the text, but here I want to recommend the blogs (in chronological order) of some friends: Arod in San Francisco, Some Assembly Required, Queer Baby Making and Dutch Cooking. In the interest of full disclosure and to obviate the necessity of waterboarding this information out of me, I will admit to conspiring with CK by providing a little editorial input for Some Assembly Required. But CK's the ringleader and put me up to it.