Just your typical husband, father, professor, officer, veteran, poet, and disciple. I keep my hair short to hide the grey ones. In the words of the immortal Indiana Jones: “It’s not the years; it’s the mileage.” I’ve been married to Amy for over twenty years. Stephen, Clare, Dorothy, and Samuel are also part of our happy home.
Twenty-Seven Other Things I’m Grateful For
1. Boots
2. Growing up in a small town
3. My teachers, especially Steve Axelrod (Riverside), Arthur Quinn (Berkeley), Emory Elliott (Riverside), Sandy Muir (Berkeley), John Engell (San Jose State), and Michael Phillips (Ridgecrest).
4. All the other Corleys
5. Doors
7. Drip coffee
8. J
9. A pull-up bar, free weights, and a Concept2 Model C rowing machine in my garage
10. Friends in Texas
11. The best colleagues a professor could have
13. Backpacks
14. Lithuanian-born poets who wrote in Polish and English
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17. PDFs
18. Electric vehicles
19. Poetry
20.The Nineteenth Century
21. Geoffrey Chaucer*
22. MacBooks
23. Lagers, Ales, and the occasional Stout
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25. Food
26. Silence
27. Students dedicated to growth and learning
*A paid political announcement. My real #21 is T.S. Eliot. Or Walt Whitman. Or Emily Dickinson. Or Longfellow, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Stephen Crane, Melville, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Annie Dillard, and so on and so forth. You get the picture.
