Kurt Arehart is an amateur writer years into a richly enjoyable retirement. Nearly all of these writings were created since.
He hired on with General Electric directly out of Penn State and stayed his entire 38 year career, first as a financial accountant, then product developer with GE Capital, and for the final 26 years, a range of product development and industry analyst roles in the Mortgage Insurance business of GE and then Genworth.
The urge to write was always hovering in the background, but came forward only when retirement became possible and Kurt stepped off into the creative space allowed by daily freedom and leisure.
Kurt also actively travels, rides bikes on dirt, gravel and pavement, skis, hikes and plays the ukulele.
And he sometimes puts on the shop apron and fixes bicycles for and with the at-risk and homeless through Raleigh’s Community Kickstand.
Kurt also continues to offer financial literacy workshops for at-risk youth, mostly at the high school level, though these gigs are far less frequent in retirement.
In other words, he keeps it varied and seems not to obsess on any one thing for long. So no massive novel can be expected.
Kurt and Nancy Arehart have been married since 1984 and are going strong, with adult sons Tyler and Coleman up and out in the world.