Since retiring four years ago,as a part time college student and Ceramacist I now spend my time creating things from porcelain clay, collecting silicone moulds and textured rolling pins for use with clay, oil painting, writing poetry, reading, organizing, crocheting, learning languages, bird watching, caring for my two Tom cats (Pablo and Rikki Retardo) as well as my two dogs (a Siberian Husky named Luna, and an Alaskan Malemute named Ajax).