Annie Em’s first…
- Half marathon: 2 hours, 8 minutes, 15 seconds (on a forest trail, with many, many rocks, and a few mud puddles).
- Pure Romance party. And no, I didn’t buy anything.
- Graduation ceremony in which the number of graduating students from her once a year online class outnumbered those in all of her 11 live classes combined (and yes, I’m still grading those online final essays).
- E-mail from NPR asking me to develop the Three Books posting into an essay.