I had another teaching dream recently. I was back at my old school. A new teacher (I think his name was Kevin—he looked like a Kevin) asked me if I was new too. I told him no, that I had worked there from the day it opened until a couple of years ago. Then IContinue reading “3 Useful Things I Learned While Teaching Middle School”
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Her Earliest Work
Someday, if I publish a book that people read and love, someone might want to interview me. And, if I’m lucky enough to pen a bestseller, and my name begins to be mispronounced* on tongues all over the literary world, someone might want to know, “But what was her earliest work? What did she writeContinue reading “Her Earliest Work”
Confessions of a Former Teacher: I am Insidious
Seventh graders are impressionable little things. That’s why you have to be careful how you handle them. 2010 was the year I got married. It was the year of WikiLeaks and royal engagements and the Chilean miners’ miraculous survival. It was the year Lost finally ended. It was also the year the PG-13 horror movieContinue reading “Confessions of a Former Teacher: I am Insidious”
