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”
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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”
The Eagle Has Ringworm! And Other Things You Don’t Expect to Say at Work
Several years ago, at 4:10 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon, I found myself running up some stairs, down a hallway, through a break room, and into an office, yelling, “THE EAGLE HAS RINGWORM!” Why? Because teaching is a really weird job that often makes you say words you never thought would come out ofContinue reading “The Eagle Has Ringworm! And Other Things You Don’t Expect to Say at Work”
Carie Juettner 