HeyJaredNo Girl is an Island
Memoir, meaning, and misadventures from a writer learning how to be at home in the world.
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1: Discovering Waldorf education (opens the original)
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Read by yours truly… 💋I wish I had an exciting story to tell here. Like I stumbled upon Waldorf through a secret door in a garden, or that I woke up to a series of blinding flashes of light, or I saw Steiner’s face in some spilled ice cream, but I learned about Waldorf through a temp job. Ugh. I know.For my latest assignment, I was receptioning for a business that shipped animals. Wasn’t exactly the direction I thought my life would take, but it paid the bills, sometimes.On my first day,
September: Opposition (opens the original)
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Prologue: Was I a good teacher? (opens the original)
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Read by the author, with love…and a straight faceThis question plagued me throughout my tumultuous and brief career as a Waldorf teacher. Being fired does funny things to you. It messes with your head. Robs you of your identity, like doubt or memory loss, especially if the job you just managed to lose was something you dearly wanted to hang on to. And society frowns upon it—you, getting fired.There are two reasons why someone is fired: you are either incompetent or you don’t fit in. Of course, t
The Missing Teacher: a backstory (opens the original)
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Read by the author ~ I mean, I don’t mean to humble brag, but I’m kind of famous for my voice. 😆When I first started writing what would become The Missing Teacher and Misfortune Cookie, they were the same draft. I was between jobs, in my thirties, and having a bit of a crisis since I was still recovering from getting fired as a Waldorf teacher.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qYPH!,f
A lifetime of eating impatiently (opens the original)
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I wrote this in 2015. But what has eleven more years of eating taught me? Apparently, that there are many ways to sit at a table.* There’s no audio version this week as I’m on day six of dengue. However, I might return to it to record later. Thanks.<source type="image/web
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