Alex Dery Snider is the communications director of Bennington College, the mother of two small children. She is a wonderful and natural writer, penetrating and funny and very sharp. The class is a wonderful mix of people…some retired, some with young children, a doctor, some teachers, a journalist. It is an especially gifted and collaborative class, I am privileged to be teaching it. No one leaves any class feeling badly about their work, and hopefully, themselves.