My Bio
Note: I originally wrote this Bio for a web class I taught some years ago called Writing Fiction. I have continued to use it pretty much unchanged except for family updates, so if you have had me before you won’t find much new. It’s long for this assignment, not meant to be a model for yours. Make of it what you will; you deserve to know who your professor is. You may respond on the Biography Forum if you wish.
I taught my first college English class in January of 1975 at Kent State University. I was not much older than my students in those days, and I secretly doubted I was qualified to teach them much of anything. But I soon learned I knew more about composition and literature than the average freshman and could bluff my way …show more content…
The youngest is now an officer in the US Air Force, Special Operations Command or AFSOC, as they say in that world. His wife is a former AFSOC officer and combat veteran. My other son is an officer in the US Army, Special Operations Command. Since I’ve said this much, I will add that six of my nephews and one nephew’s spouse are currently active duty or are in the …show more content…
One lives in Chicago, where she is an academic advisor at DePaul University. The other lives here nearby, and works for Orange Schools. By the end of this summer I will have six grandchildren under four years old. And so the wheel of life turns. My entire game has changed.
Besides reading and writing, I suppose my chief interests through the years have involved child-rearing. Since those skills are seldom needed these days, except in an advisory role or as a cheap babysitter, I have substituted motorcycling; rather, I have picked up where I left off before children. I usually ride to school when the weather is good, which typically starts around April and runs through October, although a silver lining to global warming may be an extended riding season. I go on as many motorcycle camping trips as I can work into spring, summer, and fall.
This profile has somehow ballooned to—let me check—over nine hundred words. I apologize for that, but as the poet John Keats once said in a letter to his brother, "I 'm sorry this is long; I didn 't have time to make it short." These are wise words applied to writing. Think about them when you approach your own work—particularly when it comes time to edit and
Note: I originally wrote this Bio for a web class I taught some years ago called Writing Fiction. I have continued to use it pretty much unchanged except for family updates, so if you have had me before you won’t find much new. It’s long for this assignment, not meant to be a model for yours. Make of it what you will; you deserve to know who your professor is. You may respond on the Biography Forum if you wish.
I taught my first college English class in January of 1975 at Kent State University. I was not much older than my students in those days, and I secretly doubted I was qualified to teach them much of anything. But I soon learned I knew more about composition and literature than the average freshman and could bluff my way …show more content…
The youngest is now an officer in the US Air Force, Special Operations Command or AFSOC, as they say in that world. His wife is a former AFSOC officer and combat veteran. My other son is an officer in the US Army, Special Operations Command. Since I’ve said this much, I will add that six of my nephews and one nephew’s spouse are currently active duty or are in the …show more content…
One lives in Chicago, where she is an academic advisor at DePaul University. The other lives here nearby, and works for Orange Schools. By the end of this summer I will have six grandchildren under four years old. And so the wheel of life turns. My entire game has changed.
Besides reading and writing, I suppose my chief interests through the years have involved child-rearing. Since those skills are seldom needed these days, except in an advisory role or as a cheap babysitter, I have substituted motorcycling; rather, I have picked up where I left off before children. I usually ride to school when the weather is good, which typically starts around April and runs through October, although a silver lining to global warming may be an extended riding season. I go on as many motorcycle camping trips as I can work into spring, summer, and fall.
This profile has somehow ballooned to—let me check—over nine hundred words. I apologize for that, but as the poet John Keats once said in a letter to his brother, "I 'm sorry this is long; I didn 't have time to make it short." These are wise words applied to writing. Think about them when you approach your own work—particularly when it comes time to edit and