I don't know when, but...

at some point I became respectable. It had to come with the teaching at my high school. Well, maybe with the English teaching. I taught German before. People looked at me askance back then. The title of ENGLISH TEACHER somehow makes everyone feel like I am a responsible adult.

Summer 2005 Europe trip with students

I'm 36. I don't know when that happened either. I married at 23, he was 27 and we were both mere children. Now he is a writer and you already know what I am. We have a house we semi keep up, a yard that I wind up mowing and dogs that we feed regularily. What's really funny is that I still feel like I want to sit at the kid's table at Thanksgiving.