Notes:
I've been lucky in my career (English & Technical Communication) which has meant travel, scholarship, and friends around the country and around the world. Austin,Texas has been a good home, a fine place for independent people and the arts. I still miss the lovely woods and cool summers of Hanover! I still delight in jungle growth, plants, and trees. Jungles (in Bali, Panama, Thailand) seem most like spring and summer and autumn on lovely Balch Hill. The fund to protect Balch Hill through the Hanover Conservancy will be my inheritor.
I've enjoyed work in literature and art history, and I have developed an interest in tribal and folk art, especially in Mexico, Central America, South America, and along the Pacific Rim. Most recently I've worked with banner artists from Haiti and brought back their work. All of my Haitian artist friends have survived disasters and cholera, I'm glad to say. My own special interest has been in fabric arts.
Retirement will come on August 12, 2014. I took a year off before... just to see. Wonderful!
Travel has been my delight, my growth, and my pleasure. I've grown from knowing the artists I've met from many places. My favorite: Bali, where every breath is devotional and where family and connections and tradition live long. It's a place whose physical beauty matches its cultural one.
