I’m Ben Crowder — writer, designer, photographer, artist, sometime composer, bookworm extraordinaire, etc. till you get bored and fall asleep. I love books. Love ‘em. And I’m a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I also really need to rework this page…

The Online Stuff

You can get to it all through blankslate.net.

I’ve also got some old and now defunct blogs. I’ve left them up for history’s and Google’s sake:

• Bookland — my book blog, content moved to Top of the Mountains
• Digital Bridge — my computer blog, replaced by Outside the Box

Interests

Reading, writing, writing letters/e-mails, languages, history, family history, Britain, graphic/web/book design, piano, music composition, computer programming, education, science, math, trying to save money but failing miserably, organizing things, etc.

Favorite Books

Book of Mormon, Narnia, The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity, Screwtape Letters, Surprised by Joy, Lord of the Rings, The Dark Is Rising, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, The Federalist Papers, anything by Hugh Nibley, The Princess and the Goblin, Five Children and It, A Wrinkle in Time, Father Brown stories, Standing for Something, Don Quixote

Favorite Movies

Anne of Green Gables, Shadowlands, Life Is Beautiful, The Best Two Years, Charly, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, It’s a Wonderful Life

Favorite Music

Pachelbel’s Canon in D, Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Beethoven’s Ninth, Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor, Smetana’s Moldau, Raiders March, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma!, Wicked, Anastasia, Les Miserables, Beauty and the Beast, Harry Potter