About Me
My name is Ben Gore. I grew up in the DC suburbs. I currently live in the mountains of western Colorado. I’ve lived a good number of other places as well, most notably Vermont and the Pacific Northwest. I studied writing and environmental studies at Middlebury College. I enjoy alpinism & other mountainish pursuits, reading & writing, science & technology, and drinking coffee.
I currently make my living writing software and building websites for the vacation real estate and resort industries. It pays the bills and lets me ski as much as I want. The web development thing doesn’t really cut it as far as life-satisfaction type feelings are concerned, but I currently lack the clarity of purpose to go back to suffering for art.
So. Baby steps. I’m not terribly keen on the idea of blogs, but I’m out of grand ideas for book projects at the moment. I’m going to write little short things about whatever catches my fancy and try not to worry about the fact that my brain’s turned to mush living at high altitude, what the hell. Here it goes.
About the Title
If you read this far, you may have noticed I said nothing about being a cowboy. That’s because I’m not, though I do live in a town with real live cowboys walking around. No, the name is the title of Edward Abbey’s first novel, about a guy who’s sort of a cowboy and sort of not, but definitely brave. You can read my review of it in the Brooklyn Rail from some years ago by clicking on the link to The Lone Ranger and Don Quixote Joust.