Life With Boys

Sometimes a chapter ends with a ceremony. Sometimes it ends with an email about mandatory training.

In February 2025, Webster sent its annual training reminder to active adjunct instructors. By then I was working full-time as a Learning Designer at Maryville, and I knew I was not going back to teaching there.

So I wrote to Gary:

I guess take me off of the list. Thanks.

He replied:

Thanks for your work on behalf of our students over the years.

My answer was only two words:

Miss them.

And that was that. After years of classes, assignments, questions, deadlines, good students, frustrating students, and all of the strange stories that come with teaching, one more chapter quietly closed.