Hello all, and thanks for visiting. I am a former print journalist turned college instructor, lover of learning and perpetual college student. Before starting as a communications instructor at the University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana, I was a high school English and journalism teacher for four years. Then and now, I spend my days teaching students how to write and speak the American language. Being a teacher is my one and only true calling, with being a college student coming in a close second. I have always said that if I could make a career out of being a student, I would – that is how much I love being in school and learning! With my position as a college instructor, I pretty much get to live out that dream, just as a teacher rather than student. Oh yea, and I’m a Ph.D. student in Clemson’s rhetorics, communication and information design program.