2 September Lessons Learned
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The Lesson
Terri shouldered her baseball bat and hung her glove on the narrow end. She walked to Mr. Niles’ front steps,…
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The Most Important School Rule
Our new Central School for forms seven and eight was an exciting big school. The smell of a thousand lunches…
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The Clay Brick Memorandum
In the early 1990’s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I was part of a group of artists from…
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Words Written in Marker
Grief leads such a contrary existence. People have to die in order for it to be born. My brother died…
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Mrs. Knapp’s Ice Cream Cone
The first school I attended was the storied one-room schoolhouse. An old whitewashed building with a red roof and a…
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The Big Bang of Self-Awareness
Twenty-three and recently single after a painful break-up, graduated from college but still waiting tables, I pretended to myself that…
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More Than a Teacher, He was a Mentor
Mr. Joe Bryant was an educator who demanded excellence in his students and taught me the true meaning of being…
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