Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

Why I'm going back to school when retirement is on the horizon

I’m going back to school. And I’m closer to retirement than to the beginning of my career. So the obvious and inevitable question is, “Why?”

But before why, let’s talk about what. This summer, I’m starting a graduate program in creative writing at Western Colorado University, with the goal of earning a Master of Fine Arts degree. Western’s focus differs …