I’ve been so caught up in April being National Poetry Month that I almost missed the fact that it’s also National Autism Awareness Month. Strangely enough, I actually read two books this month told from the perspective of a character with Asperger’s syndrome– The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, which is a romantic comedy forContinue reading “Autism Awareness And A Book Review: Anything But Typical”
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Two Years Later: Why I Left Teaching, Why I’m Still Gone, and Why It Sometimes Hurts to Talk About It
Two years ago today, I let the world know that I was quitting my job as a teacher. The idea first entered my mind as a serious possibility in October of my last school year, and I talked it over with my husband. At Thanksgiving, I let my family know that I was probably leaving.Continue reading “Two Years Later: Why I Left Teaching, Why I’m Still Gone, and Why It Sometimes Hurts to Talk About It”
The Greatest Gifts, Part 2
(Need to catch up? Click here for part 1 and here for the part that came before part 1.) In 2010, a student who we’ll call Darry made me a pencil sharpener. Back when I was in school (which was slightly after the days of uphill-both-ways-in-the-snow, but still well before the internet) there were heavyContinue reading “The Greatest Gifts, Part 2”
Carie Juettner 