As a high school Language Arts and English teacher for thirty-seven years in American public schools,  I have taught many courses in all types of writing—short stories, dramas, poems, research papers, essays, and other expository forms.  I have evaluated thousands of student compositions and written projects, but I never really had the time to sit down and write myself until after my retirement in May 2008.  At first, I only wrote a few personal essays about my life for my…..