Everybody was crazy about Mrs. Brisbin, who taught Grade 2 at Malmo Elementary School in Edmonton.  The fact that we kids from Michener Park--what our parents called Married Student Housing--and were all estranged from somewhere and someone was also a factor.  Mrs. Brisbin was a nice sequel to Beatrice Kelly, who was the school principal and also taught First Grade.  Otherwise we were typical "elementos", or squirts as my 9 year old used to call them.  Elementos suggested some sort of imbecility, as if we were all mental, and maybe we were. Mrs. Brisbin's fiancée was an opthamologist and had donated a poster on the parts of the eye to our class after he was guest at an assembly devoted to eye hygiene and eye safety.  Don't rub your eyes, he said, which was comparable to other advice we were given (e.g., don't put anything bigger (they always said bigger when the word was smaller) than your elbows in your ears.  So why were Q-Tips on wooden sticks still u...