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When people would ask me "what I do" I used to say I was a high school librarian, but, half joking, that it was my "ninth career". Then I would show them this chart, with the year and age at which I started each "career" and how many years I did each one. There are other ways to divide it up, but this is the most condensed version using the lens of careers:

(THE LINKS IN THE CHART BELOW ARE TO THE FULL EMPTY POETRY SITE)

CAREERS CHART

Interspersed with being a college student:

ALL OF THE ABOVE, AND MUCH MORE, IS INCLUDED IN THE LONG TABLE BELOW.

There is a pile of manuscripts I have time to work on now that I am retired: pieces from the 2 writing classes I took at UCLA Extension (links to some of them are in bold in the chart below), 32 years of Progoff Journals, the 250 page Antioch portfolio I wrote, my Independent Scholar journal, etc.  "I think there's a book in here somewhere". Here are some comments on the Work in Progress, gathered in 1997.

In the meantime, I wanted to make a sort of chronology with hyperlinks about some of the places this journey has taken me (including 7 links to pieces from the 1997 memoir class, and 3 links to pieces from the 2011 personal essay class, in bold). The narrative is sketchy, but I hope to fill it in now that I have a little time on my hands. And to whip it into some kind of coherent narrative. Some first thoughts on that are linked to in the chart below, at item 51 - Retirement.

I also plan to integrate some pictures at the appropriate sections. They are currently stored here.

The long term plan is to combine the full text of everything referenced above and below in one site. At the time of this writing it is just a Wordpress home page, with a Site Map that I am assembling offline.