Philip Fretz lived mainly in the Philadelphia area, graduated from Haverford College, served two plus years in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, West Africa, then two years in the U.S. Army. After 36 years in the field of computer services, he moved to Delaware, became a member of the Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild, and an active participant in the University of Delaware Osher Life Long Learning Institute in Lewes, DE. He is the author of a memoir of his Peace Corps service, "Softball, Snakes, Sausage Flies and Rice."