Revisiting a Past Life

Sterrett (Skip) Watt grew up in central Pennsylvania. He attended school in both the State College area and in the Lewistown area, and graduated from a small school by the name of Kishacoquillas High School, in 1969. He started early in life, as a laborer in a large manufacturing facility, where later, he climbed to upper management positions within that company. He was offered a superintendent’s job with a prominent organization in 1993. Taking that post, he ran the facility and maintained its equipment, until he retired in 2006, after a career of thirty-seven years. He now lives in Upstate New York, with his wife Vicki, the love of his life, on 9 acres of land, where they are building a farm, with Alpacas, Angora rabbits, chickens, and ducks. Skip, and Vicki enjoys life there with their five dogs, which he writes about. His poems also encompass their everyday lives and his perspective into his fifty-eight years in attendance, of the school of life’s hard knocks. Skip specializes in those innermost feelings, seldom mentioned as one ponders the meaning of love, existence, and mankind during the solitary morning hours. Those hours when night’s mist is still in the pre-dawn skies; that time between darkness and light when you can just start to see, actually see, what is really inside your heart and soul. Skip is self-taught in his style of writing and has had no formal courses in writing or literature. He is also publishing a biography about how he and Vicki met, the farm and how it evolved. He has also written two self-help books and a short story about growing up in Pennsylvania in the turmoil of the sixties. He does what he loves and what comes naturally. He is genuinely a very, minimalistic man!