by Pearl Klein | May 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
I can’t even use it in a sentence. When I open my mouth, I can form the shape and blow a little air through — “Hhhhhhhhh” — but I can’t add a hard consonant without gagging. It all started in 2012. I left my part-time teaching seasonal labor edu-temp...
by Pearl Klein | May 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Q: What walks on four legs at dawn, two legs at noon, and three legs at sunset? A: A human being, crawling at birth, standing at midlife, hobbling on a cane as life ends. Spoiler alert: This is the riddle of the Sphinx. When he solved it, Oedipus was saved from being...
by Pearl Klein | May 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
And the thing I always thought, through this whole process, was that I’m about as resourceful and well-positioned as a person could be to get help and information from the system. What would it be like for someone who is not good at online research, or at...
by Pearl Klein | May 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Sometimes in the middle of appreciating another person’s skills, I suddenly step through the looking glass and see instead what skills I lack. If a friend of mine becomes a movie director, or gets a book of poems published, or launches a high-paying online...
by Pearl Klein | May 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today is Mother’s Day. I have a mother, and I will be calling her, don’t you worry. Since I am also a mother myself, I will be celebrating the way I used to dream about when my teenagers were mere ankle-biters: A day to myself. Last year, as I recall, it...
by Pearl Klein | May 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
It doesn’t come up in the promotional materials for The Clearwater School, but Clearwater is a good place for boys who cry. At other schools, certainly the progressive, public alternative schools I attended, boys who cried were punished for being wimps....
