That is so sweet. I don't think teachers get that enough in their lives, those little thank you notes - at least ones from people that really mean it.
Thanks. I'm sure teachers don't get thanked enough. I mean while I was a student who actually took the time to do some of those notes, even I only did five of them, and one of them was for my high school guidance counselor. That's four teachers out of four years of high school classes. I didn't even get to see two of those teachers after I sent the notes so I have no idea how they felt getting those notes. I know of the two I saw one cried and hugged me, and the other dodged me like he was afraid he would cry in front of a student. The guidance counselor hugged me without crying. He was so full of warmth.
I always tell parents that everyone enjoys reading once they find their kind of book...
I've mentioned my parents were comfortable with my reading comic books. It wasn't just that. They let me try as many as it took to find what I liked best. There are two things I say about how I got into comics. 1) I progressed from Archie to DC to Marvel. 2) I was initially attracted to any cover that had a female character on it, especially if she had a sword and-or was doing magic. The Archie I read was Archie's Friends Betty and Veronica, which I forget originally had the "Archie's Friends" part because I just thought of it as "Betty and Veronica." The DC title I was doggedly faithful to, still buying it after I'd fully embraced Marvel and the X-Books, was Amethyst Princess of Gemworld which, as you might guess from the title, had female characters that used both swords and magic. At Marvel I picked the early books I read the same way. Doctor Strange had a cover with Clea on it. Thor had a cover with Sif or The Enchantress. Alpha Flight had a cover with Snowbird or Talisman. Magik is one of my favorite Marvel characters because she's a mutant with magic and a sword. My parents were so tolerant of my trying things I bought issues of Red Sonja She-Devil With a Sword at the age of eight. They weren't put off by "She-Devil" or the chain mail bikini.
...I cringe when adults want to force "classics" down their kids throats (or eyeballs I guess would be a more appropriate body part).
I understand. Even within genre fiction with my parents, my father was always disappointed that I've never loved The Lord of the Rings the way he did. Course talking about classics of "serious literature" I've always hated Romeo and Juliet, but loved Hamlet, and I've never cared as much for Jane Austen as I do for the Bronte sisters. Jane Eyre is one of my all time favorite books. You never know.
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Date: 2018-02-26 11:06 pm (UTC)Thanks. I'm sure teachers don't get thanked enough. I mean while I was a student who actually took the time to do some of those notes, even I only did five of them, and one of them was for my high school guidance counselor. That's four teachers out of four years of high school classes. I didn't even get to see two of those teachers after I sent the notes so I have no idea how they felt getting those notes. I know of the two I saw one cried and hugged me, and the other dodged me like he was afraid he would cry in front of a student. The guidance counselor hugged me without crying. He was so full of warmth.
I always tell parents that everyone enjoys reading once they find their kind of book...
I've mentioned my parents were comfortable with my reading comic books. It wasn't just that. They let me try as many as it took to find what I liked best. There are two things I say about how I got into comics. 1) I progressed from Archie to DC to Marvel. 2) I was initially attracted to any cover that had a female character on it, especially if she had a sword and-or was doing magic. The Archie I read was Archie's Friends Betty and Veronica, which I forget originally had the "Archie's Friends" part because I just thought of it as "Betty and Veronica." The DC title I was doggedly faithful to, still buying it after I'd fully embraced Marvel and the X-Books, was Amethyst Princess of Gemworld which, as you might guess from the title, had female characters that used both swords and magic. At Marvel I picked the early books I read the same way. Doctor Strange had a cover with Clea on it. Thor had a cover with Sif or The Enchantress. Alpha Flight had a cover with Snowbird or Talisman. Magik is one of my favorite Marvel characters because she's a mutant with magic and a sword. My parents were so tolerant of my trying things I bought issues of Red Sonja She-Devil With a Sword at the age of eight. They weren't put off by "She-Devil" or the chain mail bikini.
...I cringe when adults want to force "classics" down their kids throats (or eyeballs I guess would be a more appropriate body part).
I understand. Even within genre fiction with my parents, my father was always disappointed that I've never loved The Lord of the Rings the way he did. Course talking about classics of "serious literature" I've always hated Romeo and Juliet, but loved Hamlet, and I've never cared as much for Jane Austen as I do for the Bronte sisters. Jane Eyre is one of my all time favorite books. You never know.