About Steve

• Lakota name: Quiet Wolf (Sungmanitutanka Inila)
• Hometown: Alsip, Illinois
• Residence: Lockport, Illinois
• Education: Marist HS; Joliet JC (Horticulture/Botany, Greenhouse management and Landscape design)
• Occupation: Garden Center Manager with Lowes

• Hobbies: Horticulture, entomology, hippology and horseback riding, animal husbandry, photography (nature specialty), Native American philosophy, psychology, animal behavior, WARHAMMER and most other sci-fi nerdery, dragonology, collecting and photographing gargoyles, playing guitar, any of the arts, etc. etc.
• Favorite web sites: www.Pandora.com, Games-workshop.com, www.forgeworld.co.uk, www.plantdelights.com, www.logees.com, www.blackjungle.com
• Favorite magazines/newspapers: White Dwarf, Toscano, Outdoor Photographer, Chicagoland Gardening, The Onion
• Favorite television network: History and Discovery channels, Comedy Central
• Favorite Books: The Lakota Way, by Joseph M. Marshall; A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle; Animals in Translation, by Temple Grandin; Earthway, by Mary Summer Rain; God is Red, by Vine Deloria Jr.; Warhammer 40k novels, by Grahm McNeil; The Horus Heresy and various other Black Library publications (for my healthy dose of nerdery), The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle

• Favorite subject in high school: Biology or horticulture
• What would be the title of your biography? "Last of the Renaissance Men."
• Which category in Jeopardy would be the one that you would get all the answers right? ANYTHING remotely nature related
• Trivia specialty(ies): Complete immunity to late night zombiism. Also, internet searching WHILE resting comfortably, picture questions, and of course anything nature related.
• Obscure topics you actually might qualify to be considered an expert on: Orchids, Bonsai, Terrarium and vivarium construction and maintenence, husbandry of exotic praying mantid species and various other insects.
• What is a sure-fire 500 point question that you know you could get off the top of your head without looking it up? Anything related to horticulture/botany.