After 37 years in higher education and 44 as a teacher, I retired in 2017 when PSU offered the ARod deal to all employees of a certain age and years of service.  (NY Yankees paid off the remainder of Alex Rodriquez’s contract if he would leave the team.)  Kathleen and I moved from the Happy Valley to the Twin Cities to care for family.

I respond to any writing about reading education and research that editors and/or authors care to send me, and I am on my third draft of ‘Bourne in the USA’, an operetta about the life and work of Randolph Bourne, who Jeremy McCarter called “the anti-Trump.”  I’ve given up playing basketball, but I remain a member (since 1966) of the Root Beer Beaver, a band in Fairport, NY.