On Saturday night, while Austin was getting its relatively mild dose of Hurricane Harvey, we ordered Chinese food (and gave the poor delivery guy a hefty tip for braving the rain to bring us kung pao shrimp and egg rolls). When I finished eating, I opened my fortune cookie and found this: Um… what? IContinue reading “Be the Rubber Band”
Author Archives: Carie Juettner
Year 15: What I’ve Learned, Where I Am, What I Hope
Tomorrow I begin my fifteenth year of teaching 7th grade English, so naturally some reflection is in order. Last weekend I reminisced about my previous years of teaching on Twitter. (You can see the thread by searching #teacherlife #year15.) But now that the first day with students is almost here, I’m trying to compress allContinue reading “Year 15: What I’ve Learned, Where I Am, What I Hope”
Back-to-School Sale at Pumpkins & Poetry!
Happy August, everyone! (I can say that because right now August is not acting like August. It’s 72 degrees and raining here in Austin, which might be a sign of the end of the world, but I don’t care because it’s nice.) Anyway… Earlier this summer, I opened an Etsy shop called Pumpkins & Poetry,Continue reading “Back-to-School Sale at Pumpkins & Poetry!”
Carie Juettner 