Josephine
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | English instructor |
| Location | North Carrollton, MS, United States |
| Introduction | I've been teaching English ever since I was 21 years old. That's about 42 years! I love my job! I learn something new every day, often from my students. My first husband died in 1990, and after my two older daughters married and my youngest daughter graduated from high school, I decided to go back to school. I went to Ole Miss and, after six grueling, fascinating years, I earned my Ph.D. in English. I then joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in the Philippines. Since I've been back in the U.S., I remarried, worked as a customer service rep., taught English at MDCC, and now I'm back where I started, Holmes CC in Goodman. |
| Interests | gardening, interior decorating, Cormac McCarthy, Southern writers, the autobiography |
| Favorite movies | No Country for Old Men, Places in the Heart, Hungarian Rhapsody, Brokeback Mountain, Half Nelson, The Believer, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, just about all of Ingmar Bergman's movies, Boys Don't Cry |
| Favorite music | blues, classic rock, blue-grass, classical (Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Handel), ambient or New Age |
| Favorite books | anything by Cormac McCarthy, Faulkner's Go Down, Moses, Wright's Uncle Tom's Children, Obama's Dreams from My Father, anything by Lee Smith, Josephine Humphreys, Gail Godwin, Ellen Douglas, Elizabeth Spencer's Landscapes of the Heart |