WRITING FROM THE CLASSROOM AND BEYOND
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Essays and reflections on teaching, learning, life abroad, change, grief, creativity, and the experiences that shape how we understand ourselves.
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Travel Photo Journal
Traveling through Europe has been amazing. I don’t really have much to say, but sometimes pictures are worth a thousand words. I’ve decided to include a Travel Photo Journal on the site, beginning with my travels since September…
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Three Suitcases, Several Countries, No Clear Address
Three suitcases, four countries, and a few lessons I couldn’t have learned from a map. I’m still waiting for my luggage in Albania, but I know where I want to go next: back to Switzerland.
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Goodbye, Phillip Teacher
Leaving Korea meant leaving behind a toxic workplace, and children I had come to love.
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The Week of Lasts
This is the week I have anticipated for months. My last Monday at Maple Bear. My last Tuesday. My last Wednesday. My last Thursday. And, finally, my last Friday. I imagined this week mostly as a countdown to…
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Running Toward the Blank Canvas
September 4 will be my final teaching day in Korea. After six months here, I will leave the country and travel to Switzerland. The Swiss Alps have called to me for as long as I can remember. As…
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Piece by Piece
What looks like reinvention from the outside feels, from within my life, like one long act of becoming.
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Good Grief
Life lessons learned from grief…
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Dakota: Forever Chasing Bunnies
Right from the start, she was trouble.
