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106. Why I Don’t Need to Hear Your Plans

Posted on January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 by caritagardiner

None of my current students read my blog, so I’m going to share a secret here that they’ll never know. I’m horrible at keeping track of late work. I’ve tried the most common policies for how to handle work that doesn’t come in on time (discounting points, not allowing revision), but honestly, I haven’t been…

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105. Why GSD

Posted on January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 by caritagardiner

I like being a student, so I’ve spent a lot of time in schools. I’ll let you guess which of the degrees listed above I have or am working on. The list comes from a career profiles website I found that offers an amazingly extensive list of the many degrees people can earn. That said,…

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104. Why I’m Done with Guilty Pleasures

Posted on December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 by caritagardiner

When I come up with the topic of a new post, if I don’t have an image in mind, I often do a quick Google image search. When I typed in “guilty pleasures,” the algorithm fed me lots of photos related to music or food, including this one from Nia Shanks’ blog for people who…

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103. Why We Were Broke (for 45 minutes)

Posted on December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 by caritagardiner

I took the photo above from an Australia’s Science Channel article about how to know if you’ve been hacked because last week, for around forty-five minutes, I believed our retirement savings were gone. Funny story…now. At 7:10am, I got an email from our brokerage company saying that our account with them had been closed. Since…

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102. Why Climb the Mountain

Posted on December 16, 2020December 20, 2020 by caritagardiner

(I took the photo from the website of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which I’ve linked in case you want to check it out.) I know I’ve droned on about my love of Peloton workouts more than most people want, but since I still know everyone who reads the site, I’m hoping you’ll…

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101. Why Have Patience

Posted on December 9, 2020December 12, 2020 by caritagardiner

Anybody else out there feeling ready for 2020 to end? We’re getting close. I’ve tried to stay positive and to focus on what I can control and to practice gratitude for everything that’s going right. Those reminders take me a long way into peace and sanity, but they don’t get me exactly to where I…

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100. Why The 100

Posted on December 2, 2020December 1, 2020 by caritagardiner

I wanted to give myself a pat on the back for writing my hundredth weekly post, but took a little while to think about how to mark the occasion. Naturally, a recent binge of mine, the CW show The 100, came to mind. As you can tell from the screenshot (above) of a Google search…

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99. Why 2K

Posted on November 25, 2020November 24, 2020 by caritagardiner

When I realized that my #hotchkiss365 tag has reached two thousand posts, I had two thoughts. First, wow, yay me. Second, I should do an essay on CaritaGardiner.com about why I’ve stuck with that project. Then, as my brain heard the title of this entry “Why Two Kay,” I realized that it was an exact…

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98. Why Figure it Out

Posted on November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 by caritagardiner

I first heard the initialism LMGTFY when my sister (Hi, V!) told me a story about somebody’s asking her for an easily findable piece of information. Tell the truth, when you first encountered the term, LMGTFY, did you look it up yourself or ask someone about it? I almost asked her what it meant, but…

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97. Why I’m Obsessed with the Liar’s Dividend

Posted on November 11, 2020November 10, 2020 by caritagardiner

I found the photo above on an ad for a Publix supermarkets’s sale. I suppose having a Veteran’s Day sale strikes me as better than a Columbus Day sale, but honoring people’s service this way still seems odd. Maybe Publix is giving the implied suggestion that you should donate your saved money to a group…

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I teach English to high schoolers at a boarding school in Connecticut. I read AP English Literature and Composition exams and serve as a teacher mentor for the University of Pennsylvania Teaching Fellows program. I’m working on earning a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.

As a writer, I hope to capture the complexity and joy of life in the New England boarding school world. On this site, I share what I know about trying to write fiction while teaching English, coaching, and doing the other tasks associated with helping to raise over six hundred other people’s children.

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Read my recent “Why I” Wednesday Blog Posts

  • 106. Why I Don’t Need to Hear Your Plans
  • 105. Why GSD
  • 104. Why I’m Done with Guilty Pleasures
  • 103. Why We Were Broke (for 45 minutes)
  • 102. Why Climb the Mountain
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