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Birthday: November 2
Gender: Male
Status: Married
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Religion: Jewish
Location:
North Carolina
School:
Tufts (A.B.)
University of Pennsylvania (M.A.)
University of Iowa
Kent State University (Ph.D.)
Work:
Teaching Fellow at Kent State University
Assistant Professor of English at Alliance College, Cambridge Springs, PA
English instructor/English, Language, Humanities and Social Science department head at Craven Community College, New Bern NC
Hometown(s):
Revere, MA
Lexington, MA
Philadelphia
Iowa City
Kent, OH (during the massacre)
Cambridge Springs, PA
New Bern, NC
Emerald Isle, NC
Waikiki
Quote:
"Let go, let God." "The unexamined life is not worth living."

About Me

I am a retired community college English instructor/administrator. When it is warm enough, I spend lots of time perched on my upper deck, reading detective novels and luxuriating in my panoramic view of the ocean. During the winter, my wife and I stay in Waikiki, living in and sprucing up our two condos that we rent out when we are on the mainland

Interests:
I collect classical music, go to chamber music concerts, write controversial letters to the editor of the local paper, root for the Boston Red Sox (I was brought up in Boston and once saw Ted Williams play), enjoy political cartoons on Darryl Cagle's MSNBC website; conduct services as a lay leader for my temple, where I also sing and sermonize; and read for fun anything that is not too scholarly(those days are thankfully over--11 years in grad school were enough exposure to the dry rot in academia). Even though I am no longer an English instructor, I am still blessed (or perhaps afflicted) with overly sensitive antennae for the niceties (or sometimes nightmares) of our ever-evolving language

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What’s a day in Paradise (Hawaii) without some minor mishaps? Twice last week, I had trouble entering my condo. The first time, the key wouldn’t go in all the way. Then I looked up and saw 2209. Ah, no wonder! My condo is 2207. Another time (the next day), I couldn’t slide my key into the hole at all. Again, I looked up and saw that I was trying to get into room 2205. My luck wasn’t much better in the elevator. I wanted to go up to the 29th floor recreation deck, so I pressed the button and nothing happened. I pressed and pressed again—still no movement. The button didn’t even light up. Finally, I figured it out. I was hitting the 22nd floor button. If you press on the button for the floor you are on, you get nowhere. How about that! But the most painful—literally—miscue occurred while I was walking with my wife to the fitness center. I usually walk behind my wife because she frequently veers off course; it’s easier to follow her if I can see where she is going in advance. Yet last week one day, I decided to walk right next to her—no matter what.  Bad move. Just as I was feeling so good about keeping up with my wife, even if she erratically changed course, I got blindsided by a hydrant that smashed into my kneecap. I learned my lesson. I stayed behind my wife as normal, hobbling and humbled. I will continue to keep a slight distance behind my wife: it may not be too romantic, but it’s a lot safer that way.

Added: October 30, 2009
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ccinpc01 says:

SORRY I'M LATE...BETTER LATE THAN NEVER? HOPE YOU ENJOYED YOUR SPECIAL DAY!
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