janeparris

teaching, literature, language, words, media, dogs, joy

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#writing #writers #writingworkshop #exeter #exetersummer #exeter2017 #creativewriting #harkness #harknesstable #phillipsexeter #phillipsexeteracademy #summerschool #summerschool2017 #teacher #teaching #teachingwriting #teachersofinstagram (at Phillips Exeter Academy)

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Last day of Writing Process Workshop 2017 @pea_exetersummer #writing #writingworkshop #writers #exeter #exetersummer #exeter2017 #creativewriting #harkness #harknesstable #phillipsexeter #phillipsexeteracademy #phillipsexetersummer #summerschool #summerschool2017 (at Phillips Exeter Academy)

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Great writers collaborating @pea_exetersummer #writing #writingworkshop #exeter #exetersummer #exeter2017 #creativewriting #harkness #harknesstable #phillipsexeter #phillipsexeteracademy #phillipsexetersummer #summerschool (at Phillips Exeter Academy)

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Uneasy lies the head that wears the cookies. #chocolatechipcookies #chocolatechip #cookies #cookie #cookiejar #sad #sadface #responsibility #eatme #donteatme

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Happy Winnie the Pooh Day, and happy birthday Alan Alexander Milne, a thoroughly wonderful man. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35031

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Happy birthday, Juliette Honora Parris!

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Just as soon as I get a garden, I'm ordering my hero.

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The Cubbies win the World Series and my heart!

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I think I just became a baseball fan!

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce3vDhHyWaU) I adore Mary Norris, and buy The New Yorker frequently, but I am firmly in favor of the ages-old singular they/them/their. Ignore her silliness, but all hail Mary’s grace.

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I catch myself saying this as often as my students do these days. I feel like I could stop if only they would.

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The Crabapple Tree

This happened here in our town. A friend of mine—we were on the cheerleading team together—married a local farmer, and right away they wanted to have a baby, though the doctor said she shouldn’t. S…

A neat little gem I want to teach. Creepy and a little sad.

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In 1974, four years after publishing his first children’s book about the close friendship between Frog and Toad, the author and illustrator Arnold Lobel told his family he was gay. “I think ‘Frog and Toad’ really was the beginning of him coming out,” says his daughter, Adrianne. 

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Jack, I mean JAKE, this one’s for you. http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/05/why-you-sometimes-call-your-friend-by-your-dogs-name.html

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Following Federer, Monfils announces withdrawal

Bed-ridden with a virus for the past week, Gael Monfils announces he is unfit to contest Roland-Garros 2016.

Crushed!

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House loves Priscilla at PhillipoStyle

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Creaky Voice: Yet Another Example of Young Women's Linguistic Ingenuity

If you want to see where the language is going, you find a young, urban woman.