I recently retired after spending forty happy years teaching Drama, English, Music and Latin up and down the East Coast in independent schools. What I have always enjoyed most about young people is their energy and optimism about the future; my confidence in their ability to make informed choices and positive changes in this world--which will soon be theirs to run-- is as strong now as it ever was.

I have taught 8th and 9th grade English for many decades. As a lover of words and a writer...