Laura Kart Noell earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, but spent much of her professional life teaching writing and literature courses in English departments at institutions as diverse as Indiana University at South Bend, Federal City College (precursor of UDC), and Northern Virginia Community College.  During those years, she was able to develop a course in humorous literature and to write a textbook for an undergraduate course in world myth.  Now she is luxuriating in the opportunity to read and write for pleasure.