I have a gratitude prayer that I say every night when I go to bed. It’s the same every night, and it covers everything I am grateful for. I coordinate it with deep breathing, so I say it very slowly. The result is that I never have any trouble going to sleep, no matter what has happened during the day. Now, if only I didn’t have to get up a number of times a night to go to the bathroom. . . . .

I was a lawyer. When I retired I got completely lost until I found poetry. My first book of poetry called A Life of Service: the Poems of Peter Coppelman is about to be published.

The Deer Hunter. Best movie I ever saw. I managed to avoid Vietnam, but that movie brought home the horror of it all

Lots of places. Now, taking care of my eight month old grandson. Previously, traveling: I’ve spent two and a half years traveling, including two year-long trips around the world to forty countries.