The author looks back on several careers as a wooden boat builder, real estate broker and high school teacher of "how things work." His life-long enthusiasm for literature and the theatre is now focused on writing his observations of the passing parade, over eighty years of past and present. Four grown children and six grandchildren all respect his claim to be a "registered curmudgeon." The poems and stories included in Wind Chimes have been presented to individual groups of North Carolina writers. This is their first time in print.