About

Meet Jim

Pull up a chair. There’s always room at this table.

I’m Jim. I retired twice — first from nearly 40 years in IT, then from six years teaching biology. When that second retirement finally arrived, something unexpected happened: I was free. Free to read anything. No professional development shelf to maintain, no required reading — just every genre, every voice, every rabbit hole I’d been quietly deferring for decades. The books started accumulating fast. These days I’m reading close to 60 a year, and I have no intention of slowing down.

I built this place because I believe some of the best conversations happen when curious people gather — over a book, a meal, a strong cup of coffee, or the memory of a city that changed how they saw the world.

The Curious Table is the place I wished existed. A corner of the internet that moves a little slower. That takes books seriously — not just as entertainment, but as mirrors, maps, and medicine. That believes food carries culture. That thinks travel isn’t just movement but education. That welcomes the 25-year-old discovering their first great novel and the 70-year-old still underlining passages and arguing with the margins.

Here you’ll find six tables within the table — Books, Poetry, Food, Coffee, Cities, and Art & Culture. Sit wherever draws you. Stay as long as you like. Come back often.

This is a place for lifelong learners — and I mean that without an age limit in either direction. Curiosity doesn’t retire.

When we eventually open the doors to comments and conversation, know this: every voice is welcome here. Every question is a good one. Every perspective that arrives with genuine curiosity has a seat.

I’m glad you found us.

— Jim