Tag: plainfield connecticut

• Back to School – Adventures of a Former English Teacher

  

  Forty-five years ago I graduated from college as a freshly minted English teacher-to-be.  All I had to do to start teaching was find a job. Back in 1970, teaching jobs were not plentiful, but there were some to be found if you looked hard enough. I decided to look in New England. I guess I…

  Marian

  September 8, 2015

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

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• The Kindness of Strangers

  In 1970 I graduated from college as a newly minted English teacher. Growing up as a Midwesterner, I had never been to New England, but I thought it would be an interesting place to live, a place with lots of history and literature to discover. I didn’t know a soul out there, but I figured…

  Marian

  September 29, 2012

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

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