5/27/2023 0 Comments The golden compass pullman![]() ![]() It is maddening and humbling and wonderful. I am 42 years old and have been teaching in some capacity or other for twenty years, but I am living the first-year teacher experience all over again. Not much is compatible with that lifestyle, honestly. ![]() ![]() The kind of thinking that goes into reading and writing seriously about the books I read is not entirely compatible with my current lifestyle of simultaneously grading three sets of quizzes, negotiating foursquare disputes, wondering how the sixth graders know so much about cockfights, trying to figure out where the broom is, and explaining to a ten year-old how it’s possible to survive with only one kidney. Come to think of it, my blogging life began within days of my resignation from full-time teaching in 2012., and I don’t think that was a coincidence. Recently I was reminded of a core truth: teachers don’t read much in the fall. ![]()
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