Whether it's the sweat from a marathon, a pick-up basketball game, or just from chasing my children around our living room, I try to take my passion for living with me inside and outside the university. My marriage to an amazingly talented woman only enhances my love of life. The zeal for literature (both reading and writing) that she brought into our marriage helped me receive numerous fiction and non-fiction writing awards and several spots in short story anthologies. And it was her determination to stay in peak physical shape that has driven me to join her in the quest. Any given evening will find us reading a Victorian novel out loud, writing our own funny stories, or pushing our children in their jogging stroller as we train for another race.