140 Kids

A blog about my life as a teacher of 100+ high school students and mom to two rambunctious little ones.

Monday, December 19, 2016

The Secret of Santa

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This is a letter I sent to my son this week, as he began asking questions: Dear Vinny: You are getting at that age where you have intern...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Watching My Kids Become People

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I haven't blogged a lot in the last year, and it is mostly because I am feeling more private about my children than I have in the past, ...
Monday, July 21, 2014

An Artistic Year

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     Tonight, Marc and I took Vinny with us to see We Will Rock You at the Ahmanson.  I've wanted to see this show for a really long ti...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

The People Most Likely To Stick With You in the Future

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     Today was my grandmother's memorial service.  Grieving my grandmother was strange until today. Today, it felt normal and okay. Memo...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

The Mere Sense of Living is Joy Enough

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I haven't blogged since April, which means a whole heck of a lot of catching up.  The return of warm weather has meant a renewal of time...
Monday, April 14, 2014

There is a season - turn, turn, turn: Spring

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Since it has been a while since I have blogged, I am going to try to visually catch up on everything that has been goi...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Glass House Memoirs

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Marc and I are watching Fat Kid Rules the World.  If you haven't seen it, it's a really funny movie about a fat kid who is about to ...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

Arts and Leadership

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I haven't blogged much lately, and I have been trying to think of why. Truth be told, I have started blogs many times that I haven't...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

2013: Journeying along the road to freedom

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At the end of last year , as I did the usual retrospective and introspection that most of us do going into a new year, I pondered a question...
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Simple Christmas

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I haven't blogged much the past few months.  I've been busy enjoying life, which just feels great. One of my main goals for 2013...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Fall Break

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So, it is fall break for me (we get a week off from school half way through the semester), which is a beautiful thing.  We didn't hav...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

I'm different this year...

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At the beginning of my last semester of my graduate program, one of the professors kept saying that as soon as we finish this program, we ar...
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I am a high school English teacher, and mother of two charming little ones of my own. I teach in a high poverty urban charter school, while I live in a typical American suburb that has frequently been rated one of the safest cities in the country. It is a paradox I struggle with constantly, but it is my life.
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