Family: Here in town it’s just me and my daughter.

How long have you lived in Newtown? Two years.

Where do you work and what do you do? I’m a mailman in Bethel. I deliver mail. I’ve been in Bethel for six years, and worked the same job in Littleton, N.H., four years before that.

Are you a member of any local organizations, clubs and/or communities of faith? I’m a member of Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue.

What did you want to be when you grew up? I was a high end cook for a very long time — I used to run white tablecloth restaurants, and that’s exactly what I wanted to be for my entire life. I learned from a French chef and a Swiss baker, so I learned to do core sauces. Eight hours a day was spent, even before the actual opening of the restaurant, in preparation — making sauces, making bases. Everything had to be made in the restaurant, you didn’t order it.

What is your favorite food? I love pepperoni pizza. (Laughs) I can make all kinds of crazy stuff but at the end of the day, my comfort food is pepperoni pizza.

What do you like to do in your free time? I play disc golf, rock climb, ice climb, fly fish, and lately I’ve done four-wheel drive over-landing.

What is your favorite podcast? “99% Invisible,” which basically talks about infrastructure.

Favorite movie genre? 90s movies, anything with Christian Slater and the 90s is my jam. I’ll put Pump Up the Volume on any time I can.

What was the most recent movie you saw in the theater? Asteroid City.

Favorite music genre? Again we’re going to go back to the 90s, kind of hip hop and punk, House of Pain. At the same time I was also what was also considered a hesher, so there’s Mötley Crüe and Guns N’ Roses, stuff like that.

If you could spend the day with one person, living or deceased, who would you choose and why? My kid. We’re pretty good about it too.

What is something you cannot live without? I can’t stand not being outside. I have to go outside constantly. I just got back from vacation, and I spent 16 hours a day outside, every day. I mean, look at my job: I’m constantly outside, year-round. That’s the only place I want to be.

Do you have a favorite vacation destination? The White Mountains in New Hampshire.

What is your favorite thing about Newtown? I grew up in Arkansas, in a town that I think is up to a million people, or at least hundreds of thousands of people. I’ve learned that New England is pockets of small towns, and you are in that community, and as I’ve lived here and have become part of the community in several ways, I realize comparatively how nice Newtown is to communities around.

Genuinely, you start looking around and adding things up — the community center, the pool, the parks, different things we have right here — and you see why so many towns are so specific to what happens inside of them. That’s how it works here, and this is a really darn nice one. There is a lot to do here, and once you realize that, and you realize you’re a part of that community, and that is the resources you should take from, and add to, there’s something very nice about that.

Do you have a personal credo? Keep moving. No matter what happens, just keep moving forward.