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The Trouble with Teaching English
A note from the school year's two angstiest months
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Winter Recess
The end of two eras
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Romeo and Juliet
On Teaching, Divorce, and the Comforts of Art
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The Catcher in the Rye
It’s almost spring, and the ninth graders are reading The Catcher in the Rye again. Again the line that says that D. B. is in Hollywood, prostituting…
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Why Can't the People Have What They Want?
On doing fun things at an un-fun time
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The Telephone Disease
Sometimes I think about a passage in the first part of Slaughterhouse-Five, where a middle-aged Kurt Vonnegut describes how he sometimes gets drunk in…
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Eat at Mama's
Sometimes I forget I'm a mother. Scratch that: sometimes, after directing my focus toward something else, I resurface into the knowledge of my…
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Quarantine Rattail
I don’t mean to gloat, but my kids are back at daycare. A few days before the start of the month the school wrote to the parents with options. The kids…
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Occasional Katherine
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