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I'm an author who's taught creative writing and I left Michigan State to start my own editing, mentoring, and coaching website: https://www.writewithoutborders.com. I work with writers at all levels in multiple genres.

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Someday I may have to ask how that goes, you know, when I have enough in retirement to consider not teaching full time anymore ;-)

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Like all businesses, it ebbs and flows. I have people working with me on a regular basis, some come and go. I've had as many as ten at a time and as few as one or two. I had a great mentor in college and wonderful editors when I reviewed for The Detroit Free Press and other papers, and great book editors all the way through my career till now, plus I did a lot of independent studies with students at MSU, so I was prepared to break free of academia, where I was really just a guest. :-)

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So I shouldn't tell you that we are a Wolverine household ЁЯШЙRight now I'm right where I'm supposed to be, but I'm also at the point in my life where I've realized that change is ok and I can be open to unexpected opportunities.

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Both our sons went to Michigan. One for undergrad, the other for graduate school.

I'm back at voice lessons and it's a huge positive change. Hadn't been doing lessons during the pandemic and missed them a lot. It's a change leading me forward in many ways.

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My FIL is the Michigan grad, but my husband grew up a die hard and he's raised a son who only has his sights set on Michigan. We would like him to go to Purdue. You know, get in-state tuition?

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A real plus with the exploding cost of college. And our younger son had the best of both worlds: he was in the Honors College at UofM so he had a small school experience in the context of a large university.

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He's 12 and wants to be an engineer. He can apply to U of M for grad school ЁЯШЙ Our local high school has an early college program and his credits from there will transfer to any state school in Indiana. We need him to take full advantage of that.

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