Former career. I am Emeritus Professor at Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville,
where I taught philosophy of education for ten years, educational research
methodology for five years, and instructional technology and design for eighteen
years.
I like to maintain a web presence, and I spend some more time on Facebook. I am currently spending a lot of time organizing and making available writings of mine that I consider to have some importance.
I have written a lot of music and published most of it.
I have studied my family's history extensively, and I have heard
from about twenty relatives over the world as a result of my web publications.
Some of these contacts extended my knowledge of family history extensively.
For the decade of 2010-2020, I was studying/writing about the origins of the 1980 Celebration of Lesbian and Gay Pride in St. Louis, and have published an extensive website on it. I am indebted to and cooperate with the St. Louis LGBT History Project.
My father and mother both cooked before me, and I continue the tradition.
I will be sharing recipes with you.
But, in 2003 at my doctor's advice, I lost 30 pounds and have kept it off. As a part of that odyssey, I wrote several articles, and have presented them here.
I have published all my Christmas letters since 1972, and am currently tagging some old photos to the older ones.
I'm sad to say that my life partner, Stephen L. Nichols, died Feb. 7, 2023. He and I were together since 1984. We had a Holy Union at Trinity Episcopal Church in 1993, and on Aug. 12, 2012 we entered into an Illinois Civil Union at Edwardsville, Il. We spent our last six years in an independent living facility in Kirkwood, MO.
Stephen has a daughter from a former marriage. She is married to a woman in Massachusetts and they have a child, Stephen's grandchild. I visited with them twice in the last year.
I still occasionally attend Trinity
Episcopal. I'm attempting to reestablish a better connection recently to this, Stephen's and my spiritual home for thirty years.