About me
One's-self I sing -
a simple, separate Person
Walt Whitman
I was born in central Ohio farm country on August 23, 1952. The pivotal event of my childhood was my first visit to the local public library...so many books, so many records! That happened when I was 5, and I've been trying to catch up on my reading and listening ever since.
I received a B.A. in English Literature from Denison University, then went on to do my graduate work in music at The University of Michigan.
I did something else besides study that first year at Michigan. I came out. And a few years later, I met Dick-a good man, an actor, and a director-and we became partners.
I finished my graduate studies in 1985 and, over the next few years, taught, worked as a librarian, and went to England for a fellowship. In 1989 we moved to the Triangle area of North Carolina (Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill), and I became operations director for a pipe organ company.
During the summer of 1998, Dick and I celebrated our 20th anniversary. A few weeks later, he died of a heart attack.
I changed jobs again, falling back on my English training to do editing and web work, maintain the library, and be a fill-in-the-blank for a science department at one of the Triangle's universities.
The furry-faced, over-upholstered curmudgeon on the left (the upside-down curmudgeon) currently lets me live with him. He's called Buxtehude, named for a 17th-century North German organist. He's coming up on his 10th birthday, but to see him in his younger days,
click here.
In the final days of 1998, NC_Bear and I met and almost by accident began a voyage of exploration that has taken us to some rather surprising places. Along the way we stopped being just travelling companions and became partners. And he taught me that kindred spirits are not necessarily carbon copies of each other. What a kind, wonderful, funny, smart man...and WOOF!
My partner and best bruin, NC_Bear.
Click on the picture to go to his web site.
