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203. Why Generations

Posted on November 16, 2022November 15, 2022 by caritagardiner

The photo above isn’t Tuukka. I found it on someone’s Pintrest page. I wanted to post a photo of the generations of my family, but couldn’t find one I liked well enough to publish for eternity. Plus, how cute are Bernese Mountain Dog puppies?! Besides, today’s piece isn’t about my family; it’s about how I…

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202. Why PEAR

Posted on November 9, 2022November 8, 2022 by caritagardiner

I like the photo above because it’s a view of dawn across the road from my house. I wish our local governments put resources towards buried electrical and phone lines, but I didn’t include the image to give a message about the benefits of subterranean utilities. Instead, I wanted to talk about daily cycles. Every…

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201. Why I’m Writing a PSA

Posted on November 2, 2022January 1, 2023 by caritagardiner

If you’re a teacher or have met a teacher, you know that we get busy from September to June, which is why I usually take care of as many other appointments as I can during the summer. I was scheduled to have my yearly Ob-Gyn exam in June of 2020, but when the world went…

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200. Why WWED?

Posted on October 26, 2022October 26, 2022 by caritagardiner

Above is my favorite photo of my maternal grandparents, Esther and Albert Kegan, who were patent and trademark lawyers in Chicago. When I thought about what I wanted to write for my 200th post, I wanted to consider a topic that’s important for its history and its future implications. While the photo was taken almost…

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199. Why It’s Not “Toxic”

Posted on October 19, 2022October 19, 2022 by caritagardiner

I found the image above on Pinterest after I read this fascinating article from The Atlantic (thanks for sharing, AD!) about cutting people we’ve deemed toxic out of our lives. I agree with a lot of what’s in the article, which made me think more about the idea of people as poison. There are substances…

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198. Why “Not Yet”

Posted on October 12, 2022October 14, 2022 by caritagardiner

I took the photo above when we were in Maine in August to celebrate my birthday and our anniversary. We have a cabin onto which we’ve started building an addition; the whole structure will become our permanent home when we retire. When we were there, as you can see, we had a foundation but no…

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197. Why Moxie

Posted on October 5, 2022October 20, 2022 by caritagardiner

In July, I had the opportunity to talk with Main Street Moxie Podcast about literary characters with moxie. We had a great discussion and took some fun publicity photos, which will air with the show on October 17. Of course, I looked in my calendar to find out when would be the Wednesday before the…

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196. Why Consider Two-Letter Verbs

Posted on September 28, 2022September 26, 2022 by caritagardiner

As far as I can figure out, there are only five two-letter verbs in English. If you want to take a moment to try to come up with them, don’t scroll down yet. If solving such word puzzles is not how you roll, scroll away.                   Here…

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195. Why I’m Sticking with Starfish

Posted on September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 by caritagardiner

At this point, I’m old enough that I’ve had several moments in life when I’ve gotten to see the same event from new points of view and realized its greatness in whole new ways. I’ll give you two examples. When I was a little kid, I took ice skating lessons in Evanston, Illinois. Every Friday…

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194. Why Try Again

Posted on September 14, 2022September 13, 2022 by caritagardiner

[I took the photo above from sheknows.com.] Do you remember the first time you tried to sit up? To walk? To eat solid foods? To spell words? To draft a novel? To pass the bar exam? It’s likely that the first time you tried to sit up, you fell and that your first steps ended…

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WHAT I DO

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’ve earned a Bachelor of Arts (Amherst College), an Education Master in Learning and Teaching (Harvard University Graduate School of Education), a Master of Arts in English (Bread Loaf School of English), and most recently a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with a certificate in the online teaching of writing (Southern New Hampshire University).

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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