I am a graduate of Yale University with a Master's degree in English. I am busily retired and live in Pacific Grove, CA. I am attempting to market my self-published memoir, "Past Imperfect, Present Progressive. I spend much of my spare time at the computer and playing golf - activities in which I display dazzling ineptitude. I often long for the non-electric Smith-Corona portable typewriter on which I produced copy for most of the eight textbooks I co-authored for Scott, Foresman and Co..

Retired after 37 years as a teacher of English, French, Russian, and SAT prep, in Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, and Woodside, CA, and Istanbul, Turkey, I started my formal education doing hard time at a Catholic military boarding school at the age of 4 in 1942. With the end of WWII, I returned to ordinary parochial elementary and high school and then matriculated at Yale.

At Helium I am a sub-steward of Arts & Humanities, American Literature, Poets and Poetry, and matters Shakespearean. Don't spread this around, but I'm a grammar buff and fascinated by etymology. Did you know that grammar is glamorous? The two words are related etymologically. I can be reached at kerrywood007@comcast.net Additional info at www.kerrymichaelwood.com

My passion is ...

the English language

I know too much about ...

grammar

My parents always told me ...

Don't blame yourself on us.

My childhood ambition ...

to succeed in athletics and cut a swathe through the opposite sex

My favorite memory ...

holding in my hands a book with my name on the spine

Why I write ...

It's one activity in which my ineptitude is less glaring and salient

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

help menus/a blinking cursor on a computer screen/borborygmi

My first job ...

pitching watermelons

My best moment ...

there are too many

My inspiration ...

still waiting for it

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Cheese

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Hommage au FromageAged like my grandfather's wind-up Victrola,I love the scent of a fine Gorgonzola.Velveeta's cheap and tastes much cruder.Substitute a wedge of Gouda.Cheddar's sharp but eggs taste betterMixed with salty cheese like Feta;Add a chunk of warm boloneyTopped with shredded provolone.Eyes like pearls- some large, some smaller-Wink in wheels of Emmentaler."Paradise is lost," wrote Milton,"If you've used up all your Stilton."Though I'd never go for broke f'r it,I'd invest in caves of Roquefort;And if I had euros to spare,Some shares of Brie or Camembert.Cheeses love me, yes I know...

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