Jennifer Franklin:  

It's been almost 20 years since I left Cox High School. I went to VCU and got my BA in English and my Masters degree in Early Childhood Education. I fell in love with a Richmonder who graduated from Va Tech the year before I finished college. His name is Richard Franklin, and we were engaged by the time I left VCU. We got married a year after I graduated. We lived in Alexandria for 4 years while I taught kindergarten for Fairfax Co. and he did his electrical engineering for several companies. After a while in VA, he decided he wanted to get his masters degree, too, so we drove all the way to California where he studied at UCLA. I taught kindergarten in LA while he went to school. That was a wonderful experience. I learned to speak Spanish since half my students didn't speak English, and I have been happily studying the language ever since. LA was interesting, but it didn't feel like home. Rich didn't want to go back to VA, so when he finished his masters, we moved to San Diego where he got a job working as a telecommunications engineer. I half-heartedly pursued a teaching job h...Expand for more