Leigh Grissom | https://leighgrissom.com Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:03:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://leighgrissom.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-syringe-filled-blue-2-e1554614065323-32x32.png Leigh Grissom | https://leighgrissom.com 32 32 Goodnight, Mean gene https://leighgrissom.com/2020/07/goodnight-mean-gene/ https://leighgrissom.com/2020/07/goodnight-mean-gene/#respond Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:03:23 +0000 http://leighgrissom.com/?p=8012 My English teacher during my senior year in high school died on Tuesday. She was 92.

My heart goes out to her family and all who loved her.

I would go into the whole story behind why this entry isn’t all that heartfelt, but I won’t out of basic decency. I will thank her for pissing me off enough to come back to writing despite her tearing down my confidence. I still won’t apologize for centering my term paper around the origin of the universe according to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

And I will smile forever, remembering her expression when she found out I was a teacher (yeah, it was martial arts, but I was still a teacher.)

When I saw the post on one of the hometown Facebook pages honoring her on her 90th birthday, I sent a picture of my books. I should dedicate one to her, but … nah.

Goodnight, Mean Gene. I hope God is ready for you to try and grade his grammar.

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