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I'm a bicycling poet who lived in Parker for several years and worked at YourHub.com, covering Parker and Franktown for two years.

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Contributed by: Tabitha Dial/YourHub.com on 6/12/2007

After coming back from my writer's residency in Vermont (which was wonderful), it's time to go public with more news.

College-bound writers are often asked how they'll make a living: journalism or teaching? Journalism has been fun, but I have to see what it's like to be an English professor, a career track I think I'll really enjoy.

I will move to Fort Collins and attend Colorado State University this fall to get a Master of Fine Arts in poetry. There are also many literary publishing opportunities at the school and I would love to do some book design.

I'm taking my bicycle northward, but my boyfriend, Alex, will stay in Denver -- his job gives him opportunity after opportunity to try new things and I think it can't be more perfect for him. I'll crash his pad as often as possible, when school allows.

Being in Vermont for a month without Alex gave us both a taste of what life will be like when I am a student. I missed him, my kitchen and my bicycle. At CSU, I'll have a different kitchen, the same beautiful bike and Alex will be much closer than he was when I was away.

I also missed my weekly poetry workshop friends. Yes, I will surely take part in a new group of poets who mutually critique each other's work, but these poets are kindred spirits who make me laugh and laugh and laugh every Monday evening.

We'll see if we can't still meet once a month. I want to.

And thankfully, one of my fellow poets, who I have worked with for almost three years, has already moved to Fort Collins. She's pursuing an MFA in composition and rhetoric.

I have also worked with a couple of YourHub.com's Parker users, who are CSU-bound: Kristin Osani and Michael Ray. Michael was our neighbor when my family moved to Parker in 1998 and it will be wonderful to share another community with him. I admire Kristin and Michael very much and hopefully I will be a teacher's assistant for one of their classes.

And maybe, just maybe, they might post a few of the assignments I give them ...

My last day here is July 3.

I'll try not to sneak out early to avoid sad goodbyes.

Thanks for the read.

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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial

posted on 6/29/2007 @ 1:43:09 PM

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Thanks, Bill ... and best of luck and happiness to you as well.

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Submitted By: William McCabe

posted on 6/24/2007 @ 6:29:01 PM

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Congraduations and the best of luck to you on your newfound adventure in your life. Sorry I havent emailed you in a while, Ive been real busy. Maybe one day I might follow in your footsteps and become a professor and endup teaching science in the same institution as you, who knows. Thanks for reading, take care.

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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial

posted on 6/23/2007 @ 7:46:24 AM

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John, it's such a pleasure to see you commenting. I hope you are doing well and enjoying yourself. Thanks for the kind sentiments. Will you be posting soon?

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Submitted By: John Brandstetter

posted on 6/22/2007 @ 7:29:35 PM

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*sigh* It's supposed to be "you're." Well, I certainly won't become an English professor anytime soon.

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Submitted By: John Brandstetter

posted on 6/22/2007 @ 7:28:29 PM

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I was going to write you a goodbye poem, but when it comes to brevity and sentiment, I can't match William "Shakespeare" Boucher. Hope you find what your looking for up north.

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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial

posted on 6/20/2007 @ 8:21:12 AM

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::roaring applause for Bill's poetry:: A rhyming haiku? Rhyming? Bill! That's simply incredible. Thank you.

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Submitted By: William Boucher

posted on 6/18/2007 @ 7:31:10 AM

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Holding back a tear/ Wishing you were staying here/ Think I'll have a beer.

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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial

posted on 6/16/2007 @ 2:14:20 PM

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Kristin, good times up north are in our future. ;-)

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Submitted By: Kristin Osani

posted on 6/15/2007 @ 12:32:51 PM

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wow, that's so cool! I can't wait to see you up in Fort Collins.

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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial

posted on 6/15/2007 @ 10:53:15 AM

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Thanks, Jamie and Barbara.

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