Encouraging a professional dialogue among teachers of English, this journal issue focuses on teachers' feelings about their own lives, their classrooms, their students, their specialized knowledge, and their problems. The titles of the essays and their authors, are as follows: (1) "Of Pigs and Stars: A Nebraska Memory" (G. L. Nelson); (2) "On Being on Base" (M. Diogenes); (3) "Confessions of a White House Ghost" (G. Fisher); (4) "Semi-Controlled Chaos: Getting "english" Out of the Classroom" (J. Forsyth); (5) "Making Lifelong Readers of Our Students" (M. A. Krabbe); (6) "Through the Year with Shawn (A Writing Experience)" (J. Franks); (7) "English and Language Arts--A Guided Tour through the State of the Art" (C. Suhor); and (8) "To the Power Brokers" (J. Hise). Poems by A. C. Bowman, L. Easton, and E. Hardt are also included, as is a letter by O. Osa discussing American literature in Nigeria. (JD)