William Billiter is orginally from Wapakoneta, Ohio -- hometown of the first man to walk on the moon. A not insignificant fact in that he was an impressionable seven-year old in the summer of '69, and the world's most-famous astronaut fired his imagination in ways that made anything seem possible. After nearly 40 years working his way around the east coast, Billiter recently returned to the Buckeye State, where he assists the provost of Kenyon College on strategic initiatives. He writes by tapping on the mint-green keys of a 1957 Hermes Baby Rocket. Billiter is convinced that his elderly 100-pound lapdog, Willie, is clairvoyant -- except on pizza nights, when obsession short-circuits his canine neurons.