About Me

(Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006)

My name is Jonathan David Leavitt. I was born in 1943 in Brooklyn, New York. I live near Berkeley, California, which is across the bay from San Francisco. I have been married and I have two adult daughters. I am self-employed in the health care industry. I am a secular Jew. I am very political but this blog is not about politics.

More about me:

• Favorite writer: Henry Miller
• Favorite cities to visit: Los Angeles, Seattle, Santa Fe, Barcelona, Rome, Paris
• Favorite songwriters: Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Kinky Friedman, Jacques Brel, Weill/Brecht
• Favorite floral designer: Rocío, Berkeley
• Favorite online art gallery: Künstlertypus
• Favorite blogging software: Tinderbox.

—JDL