To describe me as sickly as a child would have to be an understatement. If I contracted an illness - it usually meant a long stay in hospital. Somehow I outgrew that in adolescence. Since then I've been on a long journey - now OBE - Over Bloody Eighty. I guess I've been successful in a number of different roles: student, teacher, administrator, researcher, entrepreneur, art collector, parent. I won the Poetry Prize in High School and that took me on to an English major at University. If I were to pick a Shakespearen character, I'd have to say I'm like Hamlet.