School Daze

We have decided it's time to sharpen our writing skills in a disciplined environment; the classroom, so we enroll in a writing class, writing 121, at Portland Community College. So we buy our books, a green one, about the weight of a Baptist hymnal, the other is light and spiral bound.

We look forward to school, but it's a bit intimidating. The green book is nine hundred pages, nearly Bible thin, with fine print. That's a lot to read when you take forever to get from one cover to the other and have a wandering mind.

But we have an ace in our pocket, the material is interesting and we want to know more. Learning grammar, punctuation, and concision isn't a burden, it's worth the effort. As long as we keep that attitude, we can stay focused.