Welcome contributing editors

With the addition of three contributing editors (Tom Lowe, Ken Marks, and motomynd) and two new regular columns, Moristotle is taking a significant leap forward.

Tom Lowe is a visual artist and photographer. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and increasingly finds himself quoting Shakespeare: Puck, "What fools these mortals be!"
    My association with Tom goes way back, to my senior year at Tulare Union High School—his freshman year. We can only assume that we met that year, but neither of us can prove it.
    Tom's contributions to Moristotle have so far been limited to refreshingly informative comments. You can actually find all of the posts he's commented on by searching on "tom lowe" in the search box near the top of the sidebar. (Bet you didn't now that.)

Ken Marks is a self-styled elderly gentleman, distinguished, charming, gracious, scholarly, an astute observer of the passing scene, and prone to exaggeration. I am confident that you will come to appreciate and love Ken's elegant wit nearly as much as I do.
    Ken and I have a lot of past together from our days at IBM in San Jose, California, where we both engaged in the various activities of "information development"—writing, editing, and planning software publications, and training writers new to the organization. I left that organization in 1983, but Ken and I have kept in touch, I hope to mutual benefit—certainly to mine. He still lives in San Jose.
    Ken has already contributed much to Moristotle, including the article "The case for religion" and many comments, which you can find by searching on "ken" alone (since no one else named Ken has ever commented). (Thank Ken for that attempt at humor; it's just the sort of thing he would say, only say better.)
    And Ken's special contribution has been, and continues to be "Ken's Photo Treasures," which you can investigate by clicking on the slideshow immediately beneath the staff listing in the sidebar.

motomynd is a vegan, a trail runner motorcyclist who fell briefly for what he now calls the "Ronald Reagan con job that we could all have something for nothing" and has vowed to devote the rest of his life to making up for that horrific mistake.
    Perhaps not all of the rest of his life—he spends a lot of time on motorcycles (see his website, "motomynd: all things motorcycle") and in other very active pursuits, including photography...and writing and commenting on Moristotle. Besides his many comments, he has contributed seven articles, starting with "Quantity of life, or quality?" (2011-3-15). Come to think of it, some of his Moristotle work seems to be devoted to making up for that mistake.
    I met motomynd on a walk in the Spring of 2010. He of course was running, not walking, and I was fortunate that he stopped and we introduced ourselves. I only want our friendship to be as good for him as it has been for me. I have learned a lot.

The two new columns are

• "Ask Wednesday" which debuted last week and will regularly feature an interview with an interesting person on an interesting topic. This coming Wednesday's column will feature Moristotle's editor in chief's answers to some questions about what all this means for Moristotle.
• "Tuesday with Another Voice," which will start tomorrow and be reserved for articles by the contributing editors and guest columnists. Moristotle is interested in publishing well-written articles that gleam with the good sense we hope we always display. Queries are welcome. Send them to moristotle@gmail.com.

    Last week, Ken Marks was the first person interviewed, on the topic of digital painting, and he'll be providing the first "Tuesday with" article tomorrow. Thank you, Ken!

A companion post for today displays our four editors' styles of writing and thinking (and feeling) as they react to a baby boomer's boom-boom. Read on!