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Category: Growing Up

Growing Up

Sunburst

  • Posted on November 6, 2022November 6, 2022
  • by Lauren

The Essex County (NY) Arts Council awarded me with a Sunburst micro-grant so I can attend the 2023 HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers.  Grants are gifts and I’m sooooo happy I’ll get to…

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Growing Up

Braces & Burlington with Mom

  • Posted on April 24, 2021
  • by Lauren

I covered the last two class periods of the day for my friend and colleague a couple of weeks ago. She needed to take her teen daughter to the orthodontist, a little over an hour…

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Growing Up

Tiger Beat

  • Posted on March 28, 2021
  • by Lauren

My dad reminded me that after I failed to win the 1983 Avon/Flare Young Adult Novel competition, I set my sights on Tiger Beat magazine. They put a call out for teens “who’d done something…

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Growing Up

Beginnings

  • Posted on March 17, 2021March 21, 2021
  • by Lauren

I grew up in a small town in upstate New York. Apple country. I lived in a North Country fixer-upper on a long and lonely road. My siblings and I would ride our bikes to…

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