Hi Loyal Readers. First, a note about the photo. When I sign up to read APs each year, the College Board makes me promise not to take photos of the reading itself. The photo above, I hope, provides no secret information about what’s behind the curtains (which is about a thousand college and high school…
Author: caritagardiner
21. Why I’m Excited about My Internship
By the time this post becomes public (If you know me at all, you’ve already figured out that I’m often a couple weeks ahead of writing my “Why I…Wednesday” posts.), I will have been Metamorphosis Literary Agency’s newest summer intern for two days. The first thing you might wonder is why somebody with a full-time…
20. Why I Ask First
I’ve had a weird day. Twice in the last twenty-four hours, I’ve been shouted at for being rude in separate cases in which I truly believe I didn’t do anything wrong. It all started with the Dining Hall sushi. (Aside: Our Dining Hall is amazeballs. They brought in trays and trays of terrific sushi from…
19. Why I Take Classes
I’m a teacher. I’ve been a teacher for so long that I can get perfect scores on the vocabulary and grammar quizzes I give without having to study. I’ve been grading essays so long that I can read a student’s introduction and see exactly what’s wrong with it. I’ve told so many students where to…
18. Why I Love Spring
When we moved into this house thirteen years ago, we planted this peach tree in our front yard. (We also planted a cherry tree at the side of our house, but alas, it didn’t survive until its second year.) Within a couple years, we had a few peaches. I don’t love the peaches (though I…
17. Why I Watch Shows
I started this website because I want to be a writer. I know that to become a writer, I have to write and read. I have to spend a lot of time, more than I’m spending now writing and reading, yet day after day, I find myself enjoying the guilty pleasure of television shows on Netflix….
16. Why I Love Passover
For years, I’ve organized a Passover Seder at my school. Because Hotchkiss has a global population, many of the students here can’t go celebrate holidays with their families. The School generously supports my efforts both to provide a Seder for the Jewish students here and to open the Seder to non-Jewish students, faculty, and staff…
15. Why I Cry at Movies (and books and TV commercials and…)
The short answer is, I don’t know. But creating a blog isn’t about giving the short answer to anything, so I’ll go on. I find romance novels, movies, and tv shows addictive. I can get totally immersed in the story in seconds, more eager to find out what happens–and by “what happens,” I mean “how…
14. Why I Love Main Building Duty
I’ve worked in boarding schools for my entire adult life. At my first school post-college, I lived in a dorm of eleven girls. My apartment (with two bathrooms, one with a shower and sink, the other with a toilet and sink) made up half of the small building and offered a stunning view of the…
13. Why I Love Our Old Neighbors
Okay, so the photo has NOTHING to do with the post, but how does somebody take a photo of so many great people in my neighborhood? Impossible, I think, and Tuukka always looks good in a photo, so enjoy a photo of Tuukka with a post about why I love my neighbors. And now that…