I was never good at math. Thus, Miss Addie was thrilled to see the E on my first college transcript. She ignored my As, Bs, Cs and two Ds and put her full delight in that one grade of “Excellent.” That I was in a very deep hole that would take a summer and another semester to pull out of … that didn’t compute. That E in math was HUGE! While I learned early on that lying would never serve me well, that particular sin of omission was sooo necessary. It was a few decades later that I told her that my university gave out only these grades: A, B, C, D & E. None of us, as students, knew why. Still don’t. But all those years ago this kiddo was very grateful for that E.