Hi everybody, it's Tracy. I want to tell you about something new that I am offering this fall.

I will be teaching an online class all about understanding Shakespeare. The course is five weeks

long. It will begin on Wednesday, September 17th. It will go for the next five Wednesdays.

It is a class geared toward giving you the tools and concepts you need to understand the work of William Shakespeare.

I am so excited to teach this class. As you all know, I love Shakespeare's plays. And we are going to be

using two of my most beloved plays, 12th night and Richard III, to break down the crucial components

of Shakespeare's work, verse ant antithesis, and argument.

So if this sounds like something you'd be interested in, head to the stackspodcast.com slash understanding dash Shakespeare.

The class is open now for all to enroll.

There are limited spots.

So grab your spots before it's too late.

You know, it's interesting.

Yesterday, it is the beginning of the semester this week.

And I had my first class meeting yesterday.

And it was like I could barely get to sleep afterwards, like after spending two and

half hours with these brilliant, excited emerging writers who are grounded and who want to

use their writing to help people, that they're

deeply invested in it. And I was just like, oh, I knew I liked teaching, but I think I really

underestimated how much it grounds me in reality. Teaching does that for me, too, or even just

spending time with my kids. Like, it sounds so trite, but just spending time with young people who are aware of what

is going on in the world.

But don't yet have this sort of like nihilistic viewpoint that it cannot be solved.

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