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OGDEN, Utah – Uman has a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Yale University and completed master’s and doctoral degrees in English literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder. “I am a huge Shakespeare and Milton fan,” Uman said. From the literature she has written about and studied, a favorite of hers that stands out is Aphra Behn, a 17th century playwright, poet, translator and woman of controversy who shook up societal norms. “She was probably a spy … Virginia Woolf called her the first Englishwoman to earn her living by her pen.” Uman said. Uman is an active…

OGDEN, Utah – The other day, partly out of curiosity and partly because I am rapidly becoming a man of a certain age, I found myself reading an article about something called a campus-connected retirement community. These are retirement communities connected to university campuses that offer courses and activities for their residents and, in some cases, are located on the campuses themselves. As a university professor, one could assume, I’d become tired of academic life as I grow older. But I honestly can’t imagine a better place to be retired than near a college campus, especially one as gorgeous as…