Teaching

Teaching is —being called Miss” for the first time in my life, and then having a first grader tell me that she doesnt believe I can be a Miss” because I look like a girl. That was the first day. I could tell they had great confidence in me. —being told that I was beautiful when I wore a yellow ribbon in my hair and that I ought to wear it more often. —making angel fish out of hangers and tin foil and having most of them turn out looking like hangers covered with tin foil. —making vases from...