Sight Word Sound

About Neo

Born and reared in Fresno, CA. by Greek immigrants, somewhere between boom and genX. Started working various jobs as soon as I could get my work permit at age 15. (Kids don’t really do that anymore do they?) I worked in various restaurants for a few years, mostly waiting tables and cooking, but I did everything there was to do. I still love food, wine, cooking, and making other people happy this way. Starting a restaurant continues to be enticing.

As a teenager, I wanted to be a musician and learned guitar, of course. I got into computer music with my first Atari ST back in 1985. I still have it, although now my hobby composing happens on a Mac. I still love music of all kinds from the avant-noise to alt-country and try to get out to see live music as often as possible.

After college and some soul-searching, my wife Sarah and I moved to Seattle for several years while I got my PhD in philosophy from UW. I still love philosophy and miss the time, and mental space, and community to do philosophy the way I did in grad school.

In 1994 my father, Paul Serafimidis passed away at the age of 95. (Yes, he was already very old when I was born.) I have yet to write his story, but it is something I plan to do.

Eventually, we moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to be close to family we both have here. We bought a house in Albany even before we had a child or knew that people move here for the schools. It maybe suburban compared to SF, but it is a great community.

In 2003, our son Theo was born. This fall (2009) he starts first grade.

In 2008, my cousin Tommy Panos died. This year, my mom used up one of her nine lives, but is still plugging along at 90. (Yes, she was pretty old when I was born, also.)

For the last few years, I have been working as a Web product manager, primarily in the photo space. I love the Web, designing, tinkering, blogging, sharing photography, and social networking.

I was laid off in the great recession of 2009.  Late that year employment came along. 2010 is looking up. Soul-searching still in progress; life goes on, and optimism abounds. So many things to love, so little time!

You can send email to “neo” at this domain, sightwordsound.com.