I've been a writer and an amateur musician for years, but recently started to combine the two things. I'm perhaps too "old" to be starting out accompanying myself (on a baritone ukulele); nevertheless, I'm doing it! I moved to Huntsville in 1981 from Massachusetts, and I finally feel "Southern," but to some I'm still a damned Yankee. I retired from UAH (I was the factotum of the Art Dept. there) a couple of years ago, so I have time to dabble, but I do take it seriously!