HeyJaredThe Cocoon by Rebekah Shoaf
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My surreal mother-daughter adventure (opens the original)
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Click here ⬆️ to listen to me read this post. (Please excuse the background noise. I recorded this at the Hartford/Springfield airport.)Subscribe nowHello, friends.In recent months I’ve shared my trips to London with my niece and the Museum of Natural History with my nephew. In the latest editi
All Writing is Argument (opens the original)
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Hello, friends.About fifteen years ago, the Common Core State Standards were rolled out and adopted to varying degrees by most states in the country. The standards were intended to establish a shared understanding of what K-12 students should know and be able to do at each grade level across subject areas. The Common Core’s writing standards specify that students should be able to compose texts in three distinct genres: narrative, informational, and argumentative.While I understand and appreciat
Everyone should have at least one fairy godmother (opens the original)
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Click here ⬆️ to listen to me read this post.Subscribe nowHello, friends.I’ve been blessed with several fairy godmothers throughout my life: people who have swooped in at just the right moment, sprinkling fairy dust and apparating the perfect dress.One of those people is Emily Hyland. Emily and I first met about fifteen years ago when we were both teaching English in New York City public high schools, but her gift of fairy dust really came in 2023 when I was a n
Gloria Steinem told me to run for public office. (opens the original)
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Click here ⬆️ to listen to me read this post.Subscribe nowHello, friends.“All the wrong people,” a thousand Instagram memes have lamented over the past few weeks.Gloria Steinem hit me particularly hard. She’s been my idol since I learned about her in my college women’s studies classes. But long before that, when I was nine years old, I wanted to be the first woman President of the United States when I grew up.Sadly, there’s still t
This is the best novel ever written. (opens the original)
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Click here ⬆️ to listen to me read this post.Subscribe nowHello, friends.If you’d like to fight me, go ahead and say something bad about Pride and Prejudice.Since January, I’ve been a member of “A Year with Jane Austen,” a book club of 150ish readers facilitated by Not Sorry Productions, the company that hosted my Wuthering Heights pi
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