George Koch

I live in West Chicago. I am a freelance copy editor and writer. I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Benedictine University in Lisle. I have a B.A. in communication arts, with a minor in English language and literature.

I can be reached at GeorgeAugustKoch (at) aol.com.

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." (C.S. Lewis)

Some authors I read: Clifton Fadiman, Dave Barry, Marilyn vos Savant, Richard Lederer, Frank Peretti, Richard Feynman, Zora Neale Hurston, William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Sterling Seagrave. Some interests of mine: symbolic logic, etymology and language, photography, quiz shows, journalism, theatre.

A few places I'd like to visit are Machu Picchu, Rapa Nui and Terra Incognita Australis (Antarctica, "the unknown land of the south").

WRITINGS: Academic essays, research, journalism articles, humor pieces, radio and TV scripts, etc. Also print ads and visual projects. Now has 196 written and visual projects.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Links to another Web site where I upload photos. About 2100 photographs are online.

ABOUT: Who is this George Koch character, anyway?

THE OPERA: How I became interested in the opera. I am a longtime operagoer (26 years, or since age two).

THOSE MAGNIFICENT MILES: A site by Peter Seely, the Communication Arts department chair at Benedictine. The site resembles a travelogue of sorts. It uses photos, written information and narrated video clips to take people on a journey through the history, highways and small towns of Illinois. A neat way to introduce people to a rediscovery of the "magnificent miles" of Illinois.

LETTERS FROM JIM: Very funny letters, anonymously written.

QUOTES: When good teachers go strange.

IMAGES: Art, scanned images, etc.

SOUND: Audio files.

LINKS: Other interesting Web sites.

FAST FACTS: About a few friends, relatives and family members.

TV PROGRAMS: Multiple sub-pages, each about a particular program.

Tales From the Vault



always more to come
(in the meantime, here is a rotating penguin)