After retiring from teaching American Lit. and composition at Ohio State University, I moved into an old house in Vermont (built 1783!) to the delights of writing, teaching tai chi, and gardening with my partner Jim.
While teaching I published books and articles on food and culture, but my recent publications have been nonfiction and poetry: "St. Anne's Promises" in Muse and Stone, 2012; "Rubber Man" forthcoming in The Disenfranchised: Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-Spouse Dies, Baywood Press, ed. Peggy Sapphire; and a chapbook, published this year by Kattywompus Press--"Poems for Tai Chi Players."