And English? Oh no. I was interested in engineering 
and mathematics and the sciences. I was a radio 
amateur. I flew airplanes. I designed and built 
airplanes. I worked in radio. I even studied concert 
piano. I played the piano in bars and made my living 
as a musician for awhile. I ran off and joined the 
air force for four years, and couldn’t stand that, 
it was stifling.

All the time I was growing up, and after I grew up, I 
came home and lo and behold I not only started 
teaching, I started studying English. And I wound 
up getting my degrees in communications and in 
English, and about then it turned out that I was