User:Larrykoen

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Marilyn Robert
As noted at the end of this capsule autobiography, "I have been married for many years to the fiber artist and educator Marilyn Robert."

About Larry Koenigsberg

I worked as an engineer, primarily in the area of embedded industrial software. I wrote articles for various publications, some work-related but mostly book and CD reviews for All About Jazz (available at the All About Jazz web site). An occasional classical music then jazz DJ on KLCC/Eugene, from 1983 until the COVID-19 pandemic, these days I play some amateur jazz piano. I enjoy hunting mushrooms in the fall and keying wildflowers in the spring.

I am an avid and eclectic reader, primarily of history by writers ancient and medieval, as well as by contemporary academics; and of fiction, poetry and drama, both in English and in translation. I desultorily maintain a blog summarizing my reading at Homer to Mrabet. More actively, I recently joined the biweekly book sorting group of the Friends of the Eugene Public Library, and started a Substack, Considerations of Justice.

For decades in election seasons, I have spent time canvassing and, more recently, also phone banking. I am a Precinct Committee Person in the Democratic Party of Lane County, for District 8 of the Oregon House of Representatives.

I have played various musical instruments for almost my entire life. In 1972, I performed a set in the Second Annual Willamette Valley Folk Festival as half of the guitar / vocal / harmonica duo Easy Street; one song appeared on an LP of selections from the concert.^[1] Currently I am a piano volunteer at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend. When they furloughed all volunteers as the pandemic gathered strength, I made a few piano videos (with the usual fluffs & rushing) as a practice incentive. You can watch me playing piano at https://www.youtube.com/user/larrykoeni.

In earlier life, I attended Weequahic High School, where among my closest friends were my classmates David Shapiro and Susan Bordo. Later I was awarded degrees in psychology and computer science at the University of Oregon. I worked as a nursery school teacher between those courses of study. I have been married for many years to the fiber artist and educator Marilyn Robert.

Articles I've created, in reverse chronology: