Aaron Stevens: Biographical
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This is the brief version of what Aaron tells people he meets, so it might as well be called biographical.
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So coincidence has a random way of happening along in our lives, and I
wouldn't have it any other way. In January of 1998, I met my companion
and life partner, Jennifer,
at my business school advisor's office.
She's caring, understanding, and sweet. Best of all, we spend hours every day talking about everything, enjoying the experience of life. Her companionship is everything I've never had and everything I'll always cherish.
We became engaged on a trip to Australia (in February 2000) -- I figured
any girl who would fly halfway around the world (literally) to be with me
was worth keeping. We were married on
August 26th, 2001 in Lexington, Massachussetts, and honeymooned in British Columbia. |
 Aaron and Jennifer at a restaurant on the Juluapan Peninsula, Manzanillo,Colima, 2005. |
How the heck did we get to Boston?After graduating from Indiana University in 1998, Aaron and Jennifer did the tour du mid-west, living successively in Bloomington, Indiana, Racine Wisconsin, and Chicago. We can attribute all of this moving around to blissfully pursuing job opportunities - it took moving to Boston for us to feel at home enough for us to both leave the corporate job race and focus on defining our lives outside of the office. We lived in Watertown, Massachusetts from 2000 to 2007; in the summer of 2007 we bought an circa 1900 village colonial workers cottage in Natick, Massachusetts, where we now live. |
The formative years...
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 In Quebec, the legal drinking age is merely a suggestion. |
Born in Warren, Ohio, Aaron spent his formative years in Montreal, Quebec. On the up side, Aaron had an
multicultural experience in school and became fluent in French at a young age. On the downside, the 1990s
were a tough time to be anglophone in Quebec.
As a long-hairy-freak in high-school, Aaron hung out with the "rockers" crowd and played guitar in a band doing Metallica and Guns n' Roses cover songs. Aaron quit Quebec in December 1995 in the wake of the most recent referendum on Quebec soverenty. |
My born again experience
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When I moved to Bloomington, Indiana in August 1996 to attend college,
I had the religious experience of becoming a born again Big Red
Football fan. Apparently I was the only one.
Ah, but Boston! We focus most of our college sports interest watching
and cheering for Boston College's Screaming Eagles, football and
basketball. Fortunately, we are not the only fans!
And Red Sox! And Patriots! Moishe, oy vei, you should only be so lucky!!! But we're not only fair-weather fans. We still follow the Hoosiers, whenever we can find their games on TV or at the Fleet Center. |
 What Indiana's teams really needed was a mascot. |
Family Pictures
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For ever I've been meaning to put some good pictures up here. Well, after only 6 years of
procrastination... here's a link to family pictures. |
Music and Poetry
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One of my passions is playing guitar, and enjoying the world of acoustic
rock. I'm a huge fan of the Indigo
Girls and John Mellencamp,
and play most of their music. Check out my
guitar and songleading pages. My favorite and most influencial poem is The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost; please study it. A Man Doesn't Have Time In His Life, by Yehuda Amichai is a close second. |
Favorite Quotes
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"There is hope for anyone who can look into a mirror and laugh at what they see." -Attribution Unknown
"What is hateful to you, you shall not do to others; all the rest is commentary: go and learn it." |
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