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Swain
UX Research
Personal Interests
Animals
...in particular, dogs and horses.
Featured here, you can see my regal rescue dog, Stanley Smithwick, along with Abraham, a beautiful Thoroughbred bay lent to me during a visit to Middleburg, VA.
Woodworking
Furniture making is a hobby of mine. I'm particularly drawn to Shaker style. Here I am midway through a bedside table project.
I also enjoy installing interior trim. This photo shows a set of window trim I pre-assembled before installation.
History
I love history. I especially enjoy listening to history books on Audible. Here are a few of my favorites:
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History, by Robert D. Kaplan.
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe.
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, by William Manchester.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark
The Civil War: A Narrative, by Shelby Foote.
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