This past week I started teaching a course titled “World Mythology” at Front Range Community College (FRCC) in Westminster, CO. This is a very exciting class for several reasons. First, much of my research centers on poking holes in the constructed categories that many of us (myself included) use day in and day out without too much thought. I am looking forward to lots of conversations with my students discussing how, where, and why we draw the line between myth and religion - especially where we see differences of opinion. Second, FRCC was the first place where I taught college-level courses. I had the good fortune of meeting two FRCC faculty members in a course on Islam that I taught through Naropa University’s Extended Studies program, and afterwards I was invited to teach Arabic at FRCC. That then turned into teaching Comparative Religions, History of Islamic Civilization, and a Humanities survey course. All that teaching experience was wonderful, especially as I was so young at the time! I still look back at those first few years teaching at FRCC and think about how much I learned working with those students. It was truly life changing, and convinced me that I wanted to work in education. That same teaching experience was also great for my resume, and helped me in applying for a full-time teaching job at CU-Boulder, and then going on for my PhD at UNC Chapel Hill. This past spring I showed up for “new faculty orientation,” and it was so much fun walking through the same hallways, running into so many folks I used to work with, and telling them the good news that I will be around again a couple days a week. Perhaps I can find an old FRCC faculty ID card and compare it with my new one…now THAT would be a great before/after comparison!