What’s Important about Teachers, Anyway?

As I continued editing book 3 of my Shakespeare-loving-English-teacher-sleuths-cozy-mystery-series, I started thinking about William Shakespeare’s 456th birthday, which was his most recent. I always thought it was an interesting tidbit that he was born and he died on the same day: April 24th. I don’t wanna die on my birthday, unless it’s maybe my 110th birthday. But I sure would love it if my great-great-great-great grandchildren were celebrating me and my books 400ish years after I’m gone!

Anyway, in all this coronavirus craziness, I almost forgot. I ended up doing a spur-of-the-moment FB live event, to read my two favorite Shakespearean sonnets:

https://www.facebook.com/kelley.bowles.gusich/videos/10157285021256446/?d=n

No one showed up at the time…well two people peeked in but nobody made any comments until after, when it was over. But it was fun just talking anonymously to cyberspace, and the two I read really are fantastic poems.

But then I got on the phone with my mentor teacher, Carol. Carol was a fabulous English teacher — retired now — at Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in Stockton, California, and her schedule, AKA MY schedule as we got further into the school year, included every high school grade AND Advanced Placement English, which at that point in time only included seniors, and only…