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The Trouble with Teaching English
A note from the school year's two angstiest months
Feb 17
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Katherine Sharpe
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January 2024
Winter Recess
The end of two eras
Jan 6
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November 2023
Romeo and Juliet
On Teaching, Divorce, and the Comforts of Art
Nov 10, 2023
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March 2023
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…
Mar 25, 2023
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July 2022
Why Can't the People Have What They Want?
On doing fun things at an un-fun time
Jul 19, 2022
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December 2020
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…
Dec 7, 2020
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November 2020
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…
Nov 14, 2020
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July 2020
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…
Jul 28, 2020
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June 2020
The Arc of the Present
Spring has turned to summer, and beyond summer I can faintly see fall. My older kid still divides her memories into "before the germs were here" and…
Jun 10, 2020
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May 2020
Parks and Rec
It's a rainy morning here in quar. Rainy days are tough, since our whole routine with the kids at this time revolves so heavily around trips outside…
May 6, 2020
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April 2020
Easter Sunday
On Easter afternoon, our family decided to indulge in a walk by the Baltimore Inner Harbor. It was beautiful out, one of the preternaturally clear days…
Apr 13, 2020
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January 2020
More Power
When Jesse and I lived in Berkeley, we knew a lot of people who worked in science and technology. (Ironically, now that we live in the shadow of Johns…
Jan 2, 2020
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