Teaching Joy: “The first class where I filled up a whole notebook!”

May 21st, 2009 by admin in Hope, Teaching
May Term 2009 celebrates chapbooks with Spiral Cupcakes

May Term 2009 celebrates chapbooks with Spiral Cupcakes

I am teaching a wonderful wonderful May Term–I know I always say this but it’s just

the best class ever.  There are three Southerners in it. Brilliant writers. Two scientists.

It’s fun and loud and we work hard and I am going to miss them much, very very much,

when we end in May. Today, my friend Debra brought her Middle School class and they sat

in. At the end, one of them said, “I didn’t know college classes could be this much fun.”

That could well be the high point of my day. Or month or longer. Competing with that line

is one from Jesse or Jillian–I can’t tell those two women apart, and they are sooo nice about it.

“This is the first class where I filled up a whole notebook.”

Now that is just a career-making line, right there.

I am so satisfied in all aspects of my work and I am so so lucky to have this job.

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2 Comments

  • I still remember the first notebook I ever filled up, on my own at fifteen. (I’m sure it’s in my basement somewhere.) It’s a big deal, after years and years of starts that get abandoned. A sign of being a real writer!

  • oh yes yes! we were early notebook fillers……so good to see you at the crazy poetry night!