What do you do for a living?
Retired from my former profession, now following my bliss, as Joseph Campbell would say.

What would you be doing if you weren't doing that?
Working like a dog.

What do you do in your free time?
Work like a dog (for the things I'm passionate about). [Kaplan is executive director of the American Songbook Preservation Society.]

What brought you to Santa Cruz?
UCSC Junior transfer student 1976.

What's your favorite street?
"On the Street Where You Live"... in my case Via Medici.

Name something you're excited about.
Singing the Great American Songbook

Name a pet peeve.
Graffiti.

What are you reading?
Business Week.

What's the most important thing you've learned in the last three years?
Life is short, now is all you have.

Recent personal food trend?
Smoked salmon omelettes and raw cashews.

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