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Book Reviews

One for the Murphys

  • Posted on June 28, 2022
  • by Lauren

Even though North Country School had to shut down a little early because of that thing that begins with “c” and ends with “d”, the sixth graders and I were able to read One for…

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Book Reviews

Published: Oh Reader

  • Posted on May 31, 2022June 18, 2022
  • by Lauren

Grief and growth take center stage in The Third Mushroom, a middle-grade novel by the talented Jennifer L. Holm that serves as a follow-up to The Fourteenth Goldfish, a book I shared with my first…

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Life Now

Published: Grief Isn’t Always Center Stage

  • Posted on April 6, 2022
  • by Lauren

Long ago I worked as the first communications director for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. I love coffee and I loved living in Vermont’s capital, Montpelier, but I didn’t love the job. I spent hours writing…

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Life Now

Published: Ticket to Ride

  • Posted on March 8, 2022March 18, 2022
  • by Lauren

When Shutterfly landed in my inbox in December 2020, I felt assaulted by their cheery message to “push rewind” and relive memories from a family trip nearly a decade ago. So many of us are…

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Life Now

Published: Creating a Grief & Growth Notebook

  • Posted on February 21, 2022June 16, 2022
  • by Lauren

The process I learned to help clients who’d experienced sexual assault reframe their trauma became an important feature of my own healing 17 years later when I lost my teenaged son to suicide. I call…

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Life Now

Published: Omissions

  • Posted on January 28, 2022
  • by Lauren

I started writing Omissions after a real-life examination of my faculty bio on my school’s website midyear into a new teaching position. My sixth-grade students were to profile a faculty member of their choice, but…

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Book Reviews

Where Reasons End

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

I’d started this novel by award-winning Yiyun Li at least five times since it was published in 2019. I finally sat down with it, reading once through and then again to take notes, in early…

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Book Reviews

Melissa

  • Posted on December 17, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Lauren

I just finished reading the brilliant middle-grade debut, George, by Alex Gino with my sixth graders this winter. The novel is about George embracing her identity as Melissa. The book layers in so much about…

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Life Now

Turkey Term

  • Posted on December 4, 2021December 5, 2021
  • by Lauren

We are in that funky period post-Thanksgiving break and pre-Winter Break at NCS. The English Department Chairperson refers to these two and a half weeks as Turkey Term. In sixth grade, we’re working on poetry.…

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Life Now

The First Grief & Growth Notebook Class

  • Posted on October 7, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Lauren

Here’s the lowdown on the initial in-person Grief & Growth Notebook class I’m offering at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts (LPCA) on Saturday, October 23, 2021 from 1:00pm – 4:00pm: The G&G Notebook…

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