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Most of what's been happening with me can be found on my web site
<www.fanad.net>,
which is just "above" this one.
I married Beverley Watkins on 5 November 1994. She's a clinical social
worker who has worked both in the public and the private sector. She
was
the director of the mental health program in the next county over
before
taking on a private practice, and she's interested in writing.
My son Marcus (from a previous marriage) was born on 18 May 1982. He's
a good kid and an Eagle Scout. He showed no interest
in The Citadel (strange how sanity can emerge in a family quite without
warning). He got his B.A. in philosophy from SIUE in December, 2004 and
will be going to SIU Carbondale for graduate work in philosophy in the
fall, 2006.
I was a professor of German at SIUE, though my degree is in linguistics
and most of my work is in Celtic. Beverley and I made it down to
Charleston for about 10 days in the
summer of 1998 and stayed in a "beach cabin" in the Isle of Palms. Then
we came back for the reunion – the first one I'd made, thanks to a
well
positioned sabbatical.
The sabbatical got me thinking and figuring, and I retired on 31 May
2004.
I'm still an
assistant scout master (having burned out as cubmaster/den leader in
Cub
Scouts, I relish the term "assistant"), and will take over as troop
chair this summer.