Tag: north carolina
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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens – A Book Review
Where the Crawdads Sing is a fast-paced, potent, concise book that has a little bit of everything which will likely satisfy any reader. The story centers around Kya, a young girl growing up alone in the marshes of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. When I say alone–I mean alone. Everyone has abandoned her–her mother, father, brothers,…
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Where We Were When The Towers Fell
Note: Originally Published 9-11-06 Five years ago on this day I was teaching at East Gaston High School in North Carolina, just outside Charlotte. I was 24 years old at that time. We taught on something called the block schedule, which, in our case, meant I had four 90 minute periods a day, one of…