Welcome to the personal website of Stephen J. Dow, a retired mathematics professor and software developer who, along with his lovely wife Melissa and children, is enjoying life in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in upstate South Carolina.

I plan to share thoughts here mainly on politics and technology.

This is a simple, hand-constructed website, not using wordpress or other platform. Comments or feedback may be sent to me at

comments@[my-name].com

where of course [my-name] is to be replaced by "stephenjdow". If your comment is intended for public view, please include a note like "feel free to post or quote from these comments," which might cause me to share your comments on the site in an update to a post or some other format.