When not doing physics...
In Sept 2016, my wife and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. Yes, we married young. We live in a big brown shingle house in Berkeley that has four floors; Rosemary and I live on the second floor; my daughter Elizabeth and her husband Rahal and their two children Layla and Asim live on the third floor; my father-in-law "great grandpa Tom" lives on the top floor, and walks down the steps every evening to have dinner with us. He is 95 years old, most famous for two accomplishments: the invention of Epoxy (for which he earned $1 from the US government, despite the fact that his name is on the patent) and a long canoe trip from Friends World College on New York's Long Island to the Bering Straits of Alaska. I bring him a cup of hot chocolate every morning at around 7:30 am.
I cook dinner 4 nights each week, and my wife cooks 3. But she lets me sleep late on weekends when she prepares special breakfasts. We all have dinner together only once each week, on Sunday (when I cook a prime roast), but Layla joins us on Thursdays. Rosemary and I like to joke that "We refuse to babysit more than 7 nights each week."
I take 5 mile hikes with Elizabeth twice every week, and several more walks to campus, often stopping at Caffe Strada for coffee. Rosemary and I love to backpack. The photo was taken at the end of a backpack trip in the Sierra Nevada just outside of Yosemite. It shows Rahal, Elizabeth, Rosemary and me, with Layla in front. Look at Layla's smile!
Elizabeth and I hike up in the Berkeley Hills twice each week (5 miles, 850 ft climb), and take several walks to Caffe Strada and campus. We all love skiing; last year Layla (then age 5) skied the entire Mountain Run at Squaw Valley.
My wife Rosemary has her own architecture firm Muller & Caulfield. Among my favorite projects is the Thousand Oaks Elementary School in Berkeley. She was a math major in college, and then went to work as a systems engineer for IBM. But she discovered a love for architecture, and decided to quit IBM and go back to school. She got a masters degree in architecture, and a masters degree in structural engineering.
Elizabeth and I founded Berkeley Earth, a non-profit (501c3) scientific think tank to study climate. Our offices are on the ground floor of the house we live in; she complains that her commute is twice as long as mine. (She lives on the 3rd floor; I live on the 2nd.)
I enjoy skiing, backpacking, photography, and magic. I've written about 10 books (I'm not sure how to count books that had a coauthor: as 1 or as ½?) I think my latest is my best: Now—The Physics of Time. When I am writing a book I typically spend two hours per day working on it. One of those hours is spent doing writing, and the other doing additional research (including fact checking).
For six years, 1976-1982, I owned a restaurant called Inn Season. It was the craziest thing I ever did, other than poking a sand ray with my toe (yes it stung me). You can see the announcement of opening, a sample menu, or just the logo. If anyone near and dear to you wants to open a restaurant, I can now be hired to talk them out of it. The restaurant was purchased and reopened as the Nagapan restaurant.
I cook dinner 4 nights each week, and my wife cooks 3. But she lets me sleep late on weekends when she prepares special breakfasts. We all have dinner together only once each week, on Sunday (when I cook a prime roast), but Layla joins us on Thursdays. Rosemary and I like to joke that "We refuse to babysit more than 7 nights each week."
I take 5 mile hikes with Elizabeth twice every week, and several more walks to campus, often stopping at Caffe Strada for coffee. Rosemary and I love to backpack. The photo was taken at the end of a backpack trip in the Sierra Nevada just outside of Yosemite. It shows Rahal, Elizabeth, Rosemary and me, with Layla in front. Look at Layla's smile!
Elizabeth and I hike up in the Berkeley Hills twice each week (5 miles, 850 ft climb), and take several walks to Caffe Strada and campus. We all love skiing; last year Layla (then age 5) skied the entire Mountain Run at Squaw Valley.
My wife Rosemary has her own architecture firm Muller & Caulfield. Among my favorite projects is the Thousand Oaks Elementary School in Berkeley. She was a math major in college, and then went to work as a systems engineer for IBM. But she discovered a love for architecture, and decided to quit IBM and go back to school. She got a masters degree in architecture, and a masters degree in structural engineering.
Elizabeth and I founded Berkeley Earth, a non-profit (501c3) scientific think tank to study climate. Our offices are on the ground floor of the house we live in; she complains that her commute is twice as long as mine. (She lives on the 3rd floor; I live on the 2nd.)
I enjoy skiing, backpacking, photography, and magic. I've written about 10 books (I'm not sure how to count books that had a coauthor: as 1 or as ½?) I think my latest is my best: Now—The Physics of Time. When I am writing a book I typically spend two hours per day working on it. One of those hours is spent doing writing, and the other doing additional research (including fact checking).
For six years, 1976-1982, I owned a restaurant called Inn Season. It was the craziest thing I ever did, other than poking a sand ray with my toe (yes it stung me). You can see the announcement of opening, a sample menu, or just the logo. If anyone near and dear to you wants to open a restaurant, I can now be hired to talk them out of it. The restaurant was purchased and reopened as the Nagapan restaurant.
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I enjoy popular culture. I have been entrance by the series Game of Thrones, by its great story, dialogue, and acting. And, for the few who care, here are the complete lyrics to songs from the great movie ISHTAR.