In addition to my academic pursuits, I have numerous personal interests and activities. First and foremost, I am blissfully married and have three (grown) children and two (small) granchildren all of whom are dear to my heart. I am a bit of a fitness nut: I have run five marathons and many shorter races. Below is a link to a story about my running by Randy Young from the Chapel Hill News. I have three tandem bicycles and rode one of them from Seattle to Boston in the summer of 2016 with my son, Nathan, at the helm. I do some creative writing -- there are two links below to short stories I wrote. I also participate in local competitive story telling. You can find a youtube video of me doing a little standup routine a few years back debunking myths about blindness on the "Storytelling" page." Finally, I am an avid swing dancer and Duke basketball fan!