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About Grace
					Well, here I am with a home page that I didn't want and now wouldn't want to be without. When I'm in Ohio, I live in a house built in 1830, wrote everything from age 15 to age 50 on a Royal manual portable typewriter, then jumped to an IBM PC, not even an electric typewriter in between. The computer was a gift, not a choice. Grudgingly I learned how to use it. Then e mail, now a home page. My younger son is a sail boat builder, my older son an artisan blacksmith. I prefer to write with a pen on rough paper. What am I doing living in this high tech neighborhood? Can I still live in my Century Home as well?
I'm a life-long (except that I haven't lived all my life yet) runner-- 800m mainly, also 400-1500-mile-5k--and writer--poetry and sports. I've been competing in track for over fifty years, mostly at a national level. And for more years than that, I've been writing. I rode horseback from early childhood, motorcycles since l973: street riding, motocross, road racing. Wrote a column for Rider magazine for six years.
In l993 Kent State was offering a wonderful buyout so after 25 years of teaching English and twelve years of coaching at the Geauga Campus, I joyfully retired. I loved teaching, loved coaching. Now I love my freedom from both those activities. I still edit The Listening Eye, a literary magazine I started on campus in 1970 which is now a national publication (since 1992) featuring the work of some of the finest writers in the US and Canada but open to the rest of the world as well.
I guess that's what a home page is for, maybe: the rest of the world. Letting the world into my life, entering the vast life now to be  lived "out there."  Welcome and please sign or view my guestbook before you leave.  Or you can email me at grace_butcher@msn.com
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