Outside interests, past and present, in roughly chronological order:

• Puppetry
• Reading
• Figure skating#
• Languages
• Photography^*
• Writing
• Painting^**
• Ceramics^**
• Modular and geometric origami

#Served about 5 years as president of the Ames Figure Skating Club, roughly 1986-1991.

^**These interests pursued in part through the Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames.