217 Lind Hall: I can't tell you how many classes I had in here as an undergraduate. Now, I'm back, but on the other side of the table. Intro to C.W. 2008.

It's strange, but I'm saying good-bye to another classroom now, and I have no idea if I'll ever return to high school teaching: who knows what will happen at the end of three years? Here are post-its where I've collected my own beloved words along the rims of the computer monitor.

My program allows for funding for all, most of which is paid through TAships. I will be teaching Introduction to Creative Writing in the fall; a perfect ease into the school year.

While teaching high school creative writing, I put up a sheet of butcher paper and had students write up words they both loved and despised on a banner. They were to collect those words throughout the school year too--collect them and keep them in their pocket, and we used those sheets as a writing prompt at the end, discussing why, in loose linguistic terms, those words spoke to us in the ways that they did.