It’s 8:15 am in Portland, Oregon, and Ms. Van Lehman (or “Ms. V” as her students affectionately call her) is preparing to teach her last classes at Jackson Middle School. Gayle Van Lehman, my Irish Twin, is retiring today after 20 years of teaching Language Arts and Social Studies to adolescents in the Portland School […]
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“I’ve lived with the arrow for a while now. I found it unexpectedly, loved it immediately, and carried it home without knowing the full weight of what it was. Once I learned its story, I told myself I was just its caretaker for a time. And yet, time passed…”
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Dear Joanie,Your brother called while I was planting a garden for you at your home away from home. As he spoke, I heard his flute accompany his gentle voice. He took the red-eye from Sacramento, he said, and the musical tones grew louder. All at once the purples and the yellows of the garden blurred
