When I was in seventh grade, my friend Lisa and I were Candy Stripers at North Side Hospital in Youngstown, the same hospital where I was born. In 1971, being a candy striper was what pre-teen girls did in the pre-Title IX era. We didn’t have sports, and we didn’t have a lot of after-school […]
Miss Wire
Teacher Dreams Dashed
I’m not a teacher and I’m not going for any advanced degrees or even taking any certification classes, yet I still operate on a school calendar. I think September-to-June with a summer break to catch up on TV reruns is the way God and Caesar wanted us to live, despite the calendar that they […]