Sharon Whitehill is a retired English professor from West Michigan now living in Port Charlotte, Florida. In addition to poems published in various literary magazines, my publications include two biographies, two memoirs, two poetry chapbooks, and a full collection of poems. I love literature, I loved teaching, but the richness of retirement is getting to do what I yearned to do during the years of reading student writing: devoting myself to my own. Now that's my "work"--all day, every day apart from meetings, appointments, and social pastimes.