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• Book Review—I Was a First Alto in the 1980s: Poems by Deborah Garrison

  My love for reading poetry did not come about from my childhood of always having a book in my hand, under my desk, or beneath the covers late at night. It also didn’t come about from my degree in the Humanities. It came about from teaching middle school language arts for almost 20 years, with…

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  October 25, 2026

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  A Working Girl Can’t Win, Ann Patchett, book-review, book-reviews, books, cats, Deborah Garrison, Elizabeth Strout, hospital, I Was a First Alto in the 1980s, Instagram, marching band, middle school, mother, NetGalley, nonfiction, poems, poetry, Random House, reading, teacher, teaching, The Second Child, writer, writing

• Have Books, Will Travel

  Some people flip through photo albums to fondly remember past vacations. Others, in today’s social media-crazed society, may look back over their Instagram posts to see snaps of time spent away with family or friends, in some exotic location, or just for a short getaway. Me? I just pull up my Goodreads list of books…

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  November 3, 2018

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  All the Time in the World, Belgium, Caroline Angell, Cavalaire-sur-Mer, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Cormoran Strike, Delaware, Edinburgh, France, Franz Kafka, Glasgow, Goodreads, Hunt for Red October, Ian Fleming, Instagram, J. K. Rowling, James Bond, Lewes, Liane Moriarty, Marcus Samuelsson, Marriott Courtyard, mofongo, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Niagara Falls, PBS, Pittsburgh, Priscilla Cummings, Provence, Puerto Rico, Red Kayak, Robert Galbraith, Robin Sloan, Scotland, Suzanne Collins, The Cooks Bookshop, The Hunger Games, The Last Anniversary, The Metamorphosis, The Silkworm, Tom Clancy, Two Fat Ladies, Yes Chef: A Memoir

• Love Never Fails

  It’s midday Sunday and I am just sitting down to write this week’s essay. It’s been a busy weekend. Friday night was the wedding rehearsal and rehearsal dinner for one of my colleagues, a third grade teacher at my school. Months ago, after announcing her engagement, she stopped me as I was coming in to…

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  October 4, 2015

  Essay

  Amite, Ardillo’s, Corinth, Corinthians, DJ, facebook, family, Hammond, Instagram, Louisiana, love, Papal Mass, reception, rehearsal dinner, scripture, St. Ann, St. Paul, steel drum band, teacher, teaching, twitter, wedding