Michel de Montaigne, the guy who tends to get credited for inventing the personal essay back in the 1500s, sometimes started by asking, “Que sçais-je?” (“What do I know?”). Centuries later, Ernest Hemingway commented, “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” This class will weave the ideas behind both quotes together in a spirit of epistemological wiggliness. On the one hand, we will examine what we already understand (or at least notice) about our worlds and what we can communicate about these worlds in writing; we each know something about something, probably even a bunch of things. On the other hand, we will acknowledge that as we explore the ins and outs of the worlds we inhabit, there will always be more lessons to learn, new skills to tackle, new perspectives and insights at which to arrive. We both know and don’t know, and that’s okay.