So, in
reflecting on the past year, I have to say the first part was really bad. A lot
got thrown my way that made life extra difficult, and I wasn’t sure I was going
to be able to make it. Emergency after emergency kept sucking up funds, and my
job just wasn’t going that well. But by May things had begun to turn themselves
around. I still had a financially-challenging summer because of teaching, but
another turnaround in the form of teaching at a new campus helped tremendously
by the time the fall semester started.
By the time
summer had ended, the year had all but reversed itself, especially when I
presented at Fiction Fest. That experience has given me a new set of goals and
a new course of action, one that I can continue to use my teaching expertise to
further.
I have been
trying to figure out how to break out of teaching, but maybe what I needed was
to break into a different kind of teaching, and move to a better school.
Hopefully I can capitalize on these new opportunities for the coming year.