Aaron Stevens: Biographical

Activities and Interests

In addition to teaching, my interests and activities include: listening to folk music, playing guitar, singing in three and a half different languages, and leading others in song; jogging and splitting firewood; reading the New York Times and Scientific American magazine; listening to BBC news and NPR; discussing real estate, home renovations/improvements, and working to solve poverty housing; reading about economics, finance, and politics; sharing local in-season foods (and wine) with friends; and discussing our contry's need for a single-payer national healthcare system: why it is crucial for economic recovery, enterpreneuship, and the going-concern fiscal security of the United States.

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...

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

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

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 Poem

I'm a huge fan of the Indigo Girls and play most of their music. I also love the Beatles, Guns N Roses, Barenaked Ladies, John Mellencamp, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton and all manner of what is typically called "rock music."

Check out my guitar and songleading pages.

My favorite poem is The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost.
A Man Doesn't Have Time In His Life, by Yehuda Amichai is a close second.

Some Favorite Quotes

"You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't."
-Emily Saliers

"What is hateful to you, you shall not do to others; all the rest is commentary: go and learn it."
- Attributed to Rabbi Hillel

"The only thing that matters in life is what you do outside of your job."
-Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

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Last updated: 4/11/2011