I am a retired community college English instructor residing on the southernmost tip of the Outer Banks. 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. At other times, I visit my daughter and her three grandchildren nearby in Morehead City, or my son further away in Wilmington, North Carolina. 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 was enough).

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