Miscellaneous interests of the BPL
- My wife, Gloria Rhodes.
- Our cats: Scheherazade, Tobit, and Rogan.
- Harpsichords, my field of doctoral study (completed 1994).
- Making clavichord recordings.
- Purcell Chacony arranged for keyboard.
- Experimenting with keyboard temperaments.
- I write hymns, and compiled this hymnal concordance.
- The Shenandoah Valley...I'm helping to compile this Harrisonburg/Rockingham County website.
- Learning about Ireland (co-leading a group there Sept-Dec 1998) and Iceland.
- The game of Bridge (I'm an ACBL "Life Master"), and OKBridge (I wrote a rating system for it). I play regularly at the Harrisonburg Duplicate Bridge Club, and occasionally in Waynesboro. In an odd moment, I've analyzed that old joke about how sex is like bridge.
- Listening to LP's and CD's, mostly classical (yup, pretty much the entire repertoire 1200-present) and jazz (especially Bill Evans).
- Listening to the radio.
- E-mail with friends.
- E-mail discussion groups of Mennonites (see also my MennoLink intro), harpsichords, and Glenn Gould.
- Reading.
- Making up things about Rosannadanna of the Amish.
- Internet technology research and development.
- A pictorial tour of Costa Rica, where I spent a college term in 1985. (These aren't my own pictures.)
- The lyrics of the original Gilligan's Island theme from the pilot episode. Horrible.
- Speaking of lyrics, here's a disputed point: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's French toast.
- My larger hotlist with hundreds more nifty things (some links are probably obsolete).
- See also the occupations and diversions page.
I'm apparently not yet as famous as any of these contemporaries of mine born the same year. Oh well.
Here is a different Dr. Brad Lehman with different accomplishments. No known relation.
I'm also not one of the Brad Lehmans referred to here or here. And furthermore, I did not win this beef breeding award.
bpl@umich.edu