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Month: July 2021

Life Now

Out of the Darkness Walk September 19, 2021

  • Posted on July 30, 2021July 30, 2021
  • by Lauren

Join me for the Out of Darkness Community Walk  on Sunday, September 19 from 11:30am – 3:00pm in Lake Placid, NY. The event is one of many initiatives by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention…

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Life Now

Graduate School of Grief

  • Posted on July 23, 2021July 26, 2021
  • by Lauren

I’ve always been a straight-A student. Ok, well, there was that ONE time I got a 79 on my New York State Chemistry Regents exam. I’d worked hard with my eleventh grade teacher to study…

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Book Reviews

Published: What a Children’s Book Taught Me (and My Students) About Grief

  • Posted on July 14, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Lauren

Michelle Cuevas’s powerful children’s book, The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole, features prominently in my essay about navigating grief while preparing for my new role as an English teacher at North Country…

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Book Reviews

Published: What’s Your Grief – Books & Broken Hearts

  • Posted on July 9, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Lauren
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The website What’s Your Grief published a piece I wrote this summer. It highlights three contemporary middle-grade books that are ideal for facilitating meaningful conversations and classroom activities about trauma, grief, and loss with students.…

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Bottoms Up

  • Posted on July 2, 2021January 2, 2022
  • by Lauren
  • – 2 Comments on Bottoms Up

When I was in grad school, I wore what I thought was a wide variety of outfits; however, a classmate made an observation that gave me pause (sketch 1). Not long after that, I worked…

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