What do you do for a living?
Curator of Exhibitions and Collections for the Museum of Art & History at the McPherson Center.

What would you be doing if you weren't doing that?
Oh my, I cannot imagine; maybe hanging out in bars?

What do you do in your free time?
Hang out with my grands: Sonia, Joey, Henry and Amelia.

What brought you to Santa Cruz?
Originally, UCSC, and recently, MAH.

What's your favorite street?
West Cliff Drive.

Name something you're excited about.
Obama, of course. And seeing Garrison Keillor at the Civic.

Name a pet peeve.
People who get peeved easily and often.

What are you reading?
GOYA by Robert Hughes and Pathways to the Past: Santa Cruz County History.

What's the most important thing you've learned in the last three years?
That love is like quantum physics, except when it's not.

What's your sign?
Virgo and something something rising and something something else in retrograde.

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