Business before pleasure:
My online resume (or CV if you call it that)
is the place to go for information about my working life in lexicography,
lexical research, NLP, teaching, writing, and other stuff I do for money. You might also enjoy a friendlier overview of what I do here, in a profile about me in my alumni magazine.
I'm a student of Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Ajaan Geoff), abbot of
Metta Forest Monastery. His hundreds of Dhamma talks online are for the good and gain of all. Check 'em out! If you are interested in joining a weekly meditation group in Niwot, CO, please email me (see bottom of this page). Put 'Meditation' in the subject line. The group has gone into hibernation during the pandemic but I hope to revive it again soon.
Statistics from Google reveal that most people get to the page you're
on by searching the phrase "who owns english".
Here's why! An essay I wrote a few years ago:
Who Owns English?
Man does not live by lexicography and alone, and for that, there is my other writing: some of it not available anywhere but on this link:
Orin's Oeuvre Groove
You can buy books that I've written (thereby contributing to my modest royalty income stream and perhaps helping to obviate an undignified descent into geriatric poverty) on Amazon.com. Most of them are on this link.
Medium.com is where I publish essays that I think might be of interest to a general audience. If you read them and "clap", it may result in little droplets of money coming my way. I will love you for this.
I run the Twitter account @SeamstressSLV, which tweets the diary (1936-1939, with some gaps) of my great-grandmother Ethel Watson Wyley. You can learn more about Ethel and her world here. She's in her 80s in the picture above, which was taken in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I'm a card-carrying member, and also past-president of the
Dictionary Society of North America.
You, too, can become a card-carrying member of the Dictionary Society, which is
the One True Way to show your love of dictionaries, by visiting its blog.
If you want to check out pictures I've taken
(using a smarter-than-me digital camera)
you can go to Orin's (a.k.a. Oculator's) page at Flickr.com
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! If you're on a budget, most of my older columns are archived there for free.
I sing with various Boulder choirs: at present, Cantabile and Boulder Bach Festival chorus. They both make the audience weep. Usually in a good way. Check out their concert schedules (sure to resume, post-pandemic) on the links provided.