I just wanted to take a minute to give a shout out to my painting students. I have been teaching at the Hoffman Center for the Arts for the past five months and it has been wonderful. I have one student who has taken the class every month. Others have taken only one session and some have taken a few. Like life, people come and go. But every one of them has been a joy to teach. It's so fun to watch them progress from the insecure, to the mildly frustrated, to the Ah-Ha moment and finally sit back and realize they did it. That's the joy of being a teacher.