Out of the blue, a former student of mine messaged me, inviting me to dinner. We occasionally chat on fb but that was it. My sked was full, it was the first two weeks of classes and I only had time to pee and eat half sandwiches and bananas. I took about 3 rain checks. But she was persistent.
So anyway she picked me up and had dinner, and it was strange to me that she’d invite me out. And then she said, “You know what Miss? I invited you out because now I can afford it. I’ve wanted to for a long time.” And then it hit me: her struggles in college, her struggles as a single mother. Touching that one of her goals in life was to take her teacher out for dinner.










