Thank You, Mrs. Cummins

Yesterday my granddaughters went shopping for school with their mom. When they got back, they showed me all of their cool new outfits. One granddaughter is entering third grade and I told her that one of the great things about third grade is you start doing more writing.

It got me to thinking...I can trace my love of writing to my second and third grade teacher. I had Mrs. Cummins for two years. She encouraged our creativity in writing in such a simple way, but I'll always be grateful to her for it.

She had us cut a picture out of a magazine and then write a story about it. My mother saved all my stories. I read them now, and they're very primitive but when I read them, I remember the feeling I had when I wrote them.

There's not a red pen mark on any of them. Even though my spelling was less than perform, Mrs. Cummins was focusing on something else. She was wanting us to learn to love expressing ourselves through the written word.

Thank you, Mrs. Cummins. I hope my granddaughter has a teacher like you for third grade.