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Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1969 and went to UNC-Chapel Hill for a year for my Masters in English. Like Bill Clinton, I avoided the draft with a high lottery number. Not knowing what else to do, I went into teaching, and stayed with it for 32 years, all in independent schools--small classes, no one knowingly carrying shivs or gats, but plenty of kids doped out. I came down to Louisville in 1977 to be on the faculty of a new private school that was just starting, and stayed with it for 25 years.
In 1981 I married Ann Stewart Anderson, a Wellesley grad (another connection to Clinton!) who was teaching art at the high school in Louisville. She is a painter, working in oils, her subjects women, in all sorts of ways. Her recent work has focused on women in mythology, a childhood fascination re-energized by a trip to Sicily some years ago.
I left teaching in 2002 and started free-lance writing, and started selling ideas so easily I had to kick myself for not trying it sooner. I wrote for local publications, ending up doing an article a month for the food pages of the Louisville Courier-Journal for about two years. When the position of assistant food editor opened up, I fell into it, and have been here ever since, my second career, I guess, since it will be five years this August. My articles run every Wednesday at www.courier-journal.com/food.
Ann Stewart and I have traveled widely in Europe, mostly in Italy, France and Spain. In 2000 we drove the medieval pilgrimage trail from Le Puy, France across the Massif Central and down across the Pyrennes, and then across the top of Spain to Santiago de Compostela, one of our most memorable trips. We have also been to Croatia, India, Morocco and England. Last November we went to Buenos Aires for ten days. This year we are looking to drive out to Cape Cod to visit relatives--that is an indication of how our resources have fallen.
