Writing, teaching, and crafting are three areas of my life that constantly cross over one another. For the longest time, I kept thinking I had to pick “one” career path, yet I kept coming back to these three areas. I couldn’t just pick one.

Then, it really jelled for me last night while teaching a blogging class as to why they are so inner related for me: they all involve opportunities for continuous learning.

Or, put more simply, I will never learn it all!

As I was walking around trying to help my students, all newbies to blogging but all at various levels of computer literacy, it struck me that I was attempting to teach them what took me months, probably really years, to figure out. And, I’m still figuring out the whole blogosphere thing. I am far from an expert. I just happen to know more than someone who knows zip, so now I’m attempting to teach others what I know so they at least get a little head start that I didn’t have long ago when I opened my first WordPress window.

As I helped some of them navigate simple tasks like signing up for a Bloglinesaccount and others I helped upload an image to their new WordPress blog, I was also learning as I was teaching. This was not the first time I had taught a blogging class, but it was the first time I tried to teach 24 people all at once and I also tried a few new ideas out on them. Some things worked, some need fine tuning, some I may shelf for awhile. The evening was exhausting, challenging, and fun. I was learning more about blogging and teaching, and when I left, I felt that I probably learned more than my students did.

Can life get any better than that?