HeyJaredThe Teachers Way
Molly Moynahan posts about teaching, writing, sobriety, parenting, culture, and living with grace and humor.
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Teaching: A Love Story (opens the original)
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Teaching is a privilege like aging but, like aging, it is not for the faint of heart. Last week, at the start of a new adult writing class I was waiting for my students to arrive when the door opened and a young man and an older woman entered, the young man clearly agitated, hitting himself, and making noises that were, honestly, very like a wounded animal. In short order I discovered his companion was his aide and she was extremely reluctant to provide me with any information about her charge e
Swimming: My Drug of Choice (opens the original)
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As I limp away from my workout class this morning, it occurs to me that I have been having this much fun since I was sixteen. Before then, I just roamed the fields, climbed the trees, traversed the high beams of our barn, and played prison dodge with my classmates, ferocious in my desire to survive, to remain free of prison, and continue to punish all those I deemed deserving of my wrath. At sixteen, I tried out for the first girls soccer team in New Jersey and made the cut. During this time, my
Permission (opens the original)
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No Sex, Drugs, or Rock ‘n’ Roll (opens the original)
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I was hiking in the woods up here when I heard on the drive home that a person I knew a long time ago was about to release a book, a sequel to an earlier book. I was flung back to my experience as a writer for the magazine that he edited. His reputation was bad, one of those ‘80s-era men who saw any woman as prey no matter how inappropriate the situation. I received a dream assignment from him, which would have been a cover story. The subject was basically the end of the sexual revolution, an er
Roommates (opens the original)
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I’ve had a lot of roommates. The first one in college was so different than me it was almost comical. Waking up several hours before her first class, Lisa would wash and blow dry her hair, apply makeup, and dress in something she had chosen the night before. I either went to bed with wet hair, which was still damp in the morning, wore no makeup unless I was on a dating warpath, and dressed in whatever emerged from my closet. Lisa had moved in with two dozen frozen steak dinners but after they ra
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