Jane Hough:  

If anyone had told me that I would live in Chicago, I would have told them they had me mixed up with someone else. I was familiar with both coasts, but thought anything in between was all sod huts and prairie. I was wrong. Chicago is wonderful. I've lived here since 1972, but in my heart I'm still a Delawarean. I am the director of a literacy program on the University of Chicago campus. It's great work-frustrating-but great. If only there was more funding available, but don't get me started. I hope my old friends and classmates remember me as kind. I never did anything wild in school unless you count the time my friend and I took out her mother's car when we only had permits. We were so nervous, we thought a trooper from Penny Hill would stop us and say, "You two don't look like you have licenses. Get out of the car." Talk about over-developed consciences. I would love to see Frank Giamboy again. He was my favorite teacher. I became an English teacher because of him. I taught at Mt. Pleasant and all my old teachers became my colleagues. What a charge. I share my home with a dog and a cat (Izzy and Sport)and that's the way I like it. After my second divorce I looked up at the heavens and said, "Okay, I get it!" Now I'm happy that I only have to worry about Izzy, Sport and me. If I were to meet up with old classmates and they actually remembered me, they would be surprised at how "out there" I've become. I'm not afraid to say what's on my...Expand for more