Stepping
“It was October, and the girls had been gone for over a month, but I was still riding on the freedom I felt in those first few years whenever Charlie’s daughters left and my house, my life, my time, and my husband became entirely my own again. I had started my MA work that semester and been hired as a teaching assistant for two freshman composition and literature courses. I discovered that I loved teaching. It was not just that I now had my own money to buy gifts for Charlie, although that was c...ertainly grand. It was more than that, more profound, it was as if a thick sturdy chunk of life had locked into place for me, as if a puzzle piece had filled a gap: now I knew who I was and what I wanted to do. I wanted to teach English to freshmen. And people were paying me to do it, and other people, younger people, were sitting in classrooms listening to me talk and acting as if they were learning things. It was marvelous. Life seemed to be all of a piece.I walked from the university to my home that day fairly skipping with a normal everyday glee.MoreLess
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