Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.

The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one that is interwoven with the romance plot (if that makes sense.) A story needs compelling characters in a compelling plot.

Teaching is not telling and learning is not having been told.

To say that you have taught when students haven't learned is to say you have sold when no one has bought. But how can you know that students have learned without spending hours correcting tests and papers? . . . check students understanding while you are teaching (not at 10 o'clock at night when you're correcting papers) so you don't move on with unlearned material that can accumulate like a snowball and eventually engulf the student in confusion and despair.

I did indeed say you could have lovers. But I never promised that I would not kill them.