Matts and Jeanine are lifelong sailors. Matts has written extensively about sailing and is a free lance writer for "48 North", "Sail", "Cruising World", "Nautique" (French), and "Sailing" magazines. He and Jeanine are the authors of "Sailing Out of Retirement," a narrative and self-help tome for seniors, retirees, and armchair sailors alike. In 2007, Matts retired as a professor, Emeritus, of American literature after forty-five years as a teacher and scholar. The Djoses now live in the Colorado high country where they built a Rocky Mountain chalet to celebrate their 50th anniversary.