Follow the links below to penetrate the inner recesses:

Business before pleasure: look at
Orin's page at PublishersMarketplace.com
to see all the things I am willing to do for money
and to learn how you can engage me to do more of them.
Got no money? Tell me what you've got, maybe we can do a deal.

Orin's resume (or CV if you call it that)
is the place if you want to see a more sober version of the above.

Statistics from Google reveal that most people get to my webpage by searching on the phrase "who owns english". Here's why! A paper I wrote and published a few years ago:
Who Owns English?

If you need somebody to lecture, scold, or present information about dictionaries and lexicography, have a look at the possibilities here:
Orin's Web Brochure

If you want to publish my latest novel and thereby save me from the life of harmless drudgery that I lead, you'll want to visit my Oeuvre Groove, where you'll find entertaining and informative reading aplenty:
Orin's Oeuvre Groove

You can buy books that I've written (thereby contributing to my modest income stream and perhaps helping to obviate an undignified descent into geriatric poverty) on Amazon.com! The whole lot of them are on this link.

I'm the book review editor of Dictionaries, the journal of
the Dictionary Society of North America. If you wish to bring to my attention
a title for possible review in the journal please email me on this link.

Here's something kind of cool: I received the 2007 Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award for best short description of the Peace Corps experience. You can read the prize-winning prose here:
Maid in Morocco
You can read another account of my Peace Corps experience, published in a Peace Corps anthology of like pieces, here:
Neighbors

If you want to check out pix I've taken (as I grapple with my
smarter-than-me digital camera) you can go to
Orin's (a.k.a. Oculator's) page at Flickr.com

Hungry? The best place to sample my modestly admired cooking is
at the International Meditation Center, where I am a volunteer cook on retreats:
International Meditation Center USA

Coming for a visit? Here's what to look for if you're doing a flyover:

View Larger Map
We can go for a walk in the forest and then eat cookies and stuff like that.

You can read my monthly column on words and language if you take out a very modestly priced subscription to the Visual Thesaurus. Thousands do!
The Visual Thesaurus

If you want to hear me sing (few have expressed the wish . . .), check out the
concert schedule of the Mastworks Chorale:
Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County

Are we related? If your surname is Hargraves and you live in or have ancestors in
the Big Thicket, there's a pretty good chance of it. See entry number 8 on
Hargraves Lineages

Are we connected? (And if we're not, I tend to be quite accepting of invitations.)
Here's my proflie on LinkedIn:
LinkedIn Profile

Facebook? Yeah, I've leared to waste time there too. I friend easily, but no poking, please, unless you really know what you're doing:
My page (subject to periodic adjustments) on Facebook

If you want to talk to me or propose something unusual, start here!
Straight to my Inbox

Coming soon (I know, I keep saying that): Abdul's corner. Abdul is a sock monkey. Soon you'll be able to read his moving story and leave messages for him here. Stay tuned!

Thanks, and see ya later!