I read Rebecca Solnit's The Faraway Nearby a few weeks ago, back when I got word that my students would be returning to school in-person for four days each week. I had spent the year alternating back-and-forth between remote learning and hybrid teaching, and I wanted normal. Not-staying-home-not-wearing-a-mask-not-teaching-second-grade-online-and-in-person-at-the-same-time normal. We're all in the same place; [...]
So, remember that last post I shared in August? The one when I apologized for missing one of my weekly posts? The one when I promised that I could--I would--keep up with it all? Visiting my sister at college in November Ha. Let me tell you about my first year of teaching. I'm not sure [...]
Left to Right: Gramps, Aunt Holly, Mom & Grandma, 1993 You can tell a lot about a person by the house they're sorted into at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I grew up in the 1990s and, unsurprisingly, some of the first books that I fell in love with were the Harry Potter series [...]
Wednesday, February 5, 1969 // The Gastonia Gazette Eighth grade was the year we took a class trip to Washington, D.C., and I couldn't have been more excited. I loved reading and history and reading about history back then, and touring our nation's capital to learn more of the United States' backstory was, I had [...]
Robert Zielinski & Janice (Zielinski) Kuznicki As a kid, my grandmother adored her older brother, and she always wanted to be included in everything he did. Bob started school at the age of six, and two-year-old Janice would toddle after him on his walk to class each morning, sitting outside of the classroom until school [...]
Applegate Genealogy 
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