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About This Blog
This blog was created as a chronicle of my teaching experience and life after college. My life is a series of adventures- adventures with kids learning how to read and be real people, adventures with my awesome family and friends, and adventures with the world in general. No one would be worse off without this tiny piece of URL space, but at the same time I like knowing that people can relate. Although my teaching days are behind me (and now embedded in the archives of this blog), I am hoping to record a new journey that was born from the time I spent in the classroom- my journey through law school. I can say with confidence that the humor and unpredictability that characterized my teaching experience will be much less frequent, but I hope that the entertainment value remains the same.

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About Me
I'm from a very small town in Upstate New York where I lived my whole life with two P.E. teacher parents who somehow managed to get me into volleyball despite a predisposition against any kind of physical activity. I went on to play and graduate from a small, liberal arts college in New England in 2009 with degrees in Public Policy and Creative Writing. For two years, I lived in North Carolina teaching first grade through Teach For America. I am currently attending law school at Boston University. If you really want to know about me, read my blog, especially the posts about my brother and sister and extended family.


About Life
I don't claim to know everything (actually, yes I do), but I think my theory on life is summed up quite nicely with the following quote from a David Foster Wallace graduation speech:

"But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear talked about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving and displaying. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline and effort, and being able to truly care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in a myriad of petty, unsexy ways every day."