Short & Sweet, as a Career's Day Speaker I told a classroom of aspiring young writers that the word 'career' was not part of my vocabulary. Try adventure! Also an author of Westering themes, Louis L'amour said of his love affair with learning that school interfered with his education and, even as I can relate, I have been an English Teacher of college-bound students & remedial students classified as juvenile delinquents. Time later, to meet monetary needs after being abandoned in marriage with three small children, I bought, restored, and sold antique homes, and I even taught my kiddos how to