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SC CARLETON: Get Mortified. Again!
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Words] [ideas] [essays] [letters] [other]. Sunday, May 9, 2010. Get Mortified. Again! Live April 29 and 30, 2010, at the Mission Theater. For a DVD of the show, email sclarecarleton@gmail.com. Then my parents got separated when I was in high school, and I felt the only control I had was with obsessing over food and being skinny. Being the only parent at home, my mom became the food police and the lucky recipient of all my adolescent rage. [Sorry, Mom! March 6, 1994. It’d be much easier. I’ve been...
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SC CARLETON: March 2010
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Words] [ideas] [essays] [letters] [other]. Friday, March 12, 2010. In the Name of Humility, Part II. The discovery of another one of my 20-Below columns for the Eugene. Circa 1997, age 17. This one involves TV, Marilyn Manson, and various other fuel for my teenage ranting. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Http:/ news.google.com/newspapers? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). SC Carleton is a writer and language arts teacher in Portland, Oregon. You can contact her at sclarecarleton@gmail.com. Art by Amy Carleton.
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SC CARLETON: April 2012
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Words] [ideas] [essays] [letters] [other]. Wednesday, April 11, 2012. 2012 and 2013 Update. The blog is on a slight hiatus, but for good reason: Back in 2011 I finally committed to working on a book with the help of my fantastic writing group! Although this project requires most of my writing time now, I still hope to produce essays and some shorter pieces every so often. For a little amusement in the meantime, be sure to visit our friends at http:/ redpenarmy.wordpress.com/. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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SC CARLETON: 2012 and 2013 Update
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Words] [ideas] [essays] [letters] [other]. Wednesday, April 11, 2012. 2012 and 2013 Update. The blog is on a slight hiatus, but for good reason: Back in 2011 I finally committed to working on a book with the help of my fantastic writing group! Although this project requires most of my writing time now, I still hope to produce essays and some shorter pieces every so often. For a little amusement in the meantime, be sure to visit our friends at http:/ redpenarmy.wordpress.com/. View my complete profile.
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SC CARLETON: When You’re a Teacher
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Words] [ideas] [essays] [letters] [other]. Sunday, January 10, 2010. When You’re a Teacher. You think you’re going to reminisce about how you imparted all this great knowledge of Homeric similes, couplets, prepositions, rising action and political satire, but here’s what you actually end up remembering:. 2 When Alex leaves a note on your desk: “In your face, ha ha I got my reading log done BEFORE you went on that field trip. HA! 5 When a student turns in a final with the response:. The stages of life:.
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SC CARLETON: November 2010
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Words] [ideas] [essays] [letters] [other]. Sunday, November 14, 2010. Love (Or Labor) Lost. This article originally appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of the. A few months ago, my fiancé sits me down and says, “I don’t think we’re going to work out anymore.” He presents many pieces of evidence, but it boils down to one main thing. Work has come between us. As someone raised to live by Calvinist standards that equate vocational success with personal salvation, my work is important to me. It is more common ...
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SC CARLETON: December 2009
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Words] [ideas] [essays] [letters] [other]. Monday, December 21, 2009. Txt msg tech BF=OMG modrn luv. By Portland Women Writers. Whose blog can be found at pdxwriters.blogspot.com. Information about VoiceCatcher can be found here. Txt msg tech BF=OMG modrn luv. The relationship subsisted through phone calls, emails, and text and instant messaging. In an instantaneous moment, the “we” of our relationship was not limited to him and I. When things eventually (spoiler alert! Got ugly, (spoiler alert! The tota...
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SC CARLETON: April 2015
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Words] [ideas] [essays] [letters] [other]. Tuesday, April 21, 2015. In Memoriam, Or, A Tribute to Living Large. Image courtesy of Mouth of the Wolf. April 19, 2015. Back in my bathroom this morning, my hand wielding the eyebrow pencil froze in the air as the telling verb came over the radio: “By all accounts, Gretchen Icenogle lived large.” Lived. I held my breath as I waited for the next line. “…She died last week, of complications from cancer.”. Read Gretchen’s blog here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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SC CARLETON: Heavy Acts with Heavy Hearts Relate: Finding Hope in Literature
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Words] [ideas] [essays] [letters] [other]. Monday, July 5, 2010. Heavy Acts with Heavy Hearts Relate: Finding Hope in Literature. This article first appeared in the. XXXII, No. 1, pp. 6-9, Spring 2010. The Catcher in the Rye, Siddhartha, The Odyssey, The Bell Jar, Sula, Hamlet. Fifteen years later, in the midst of. A student in my Senior English class sighs dramatically, “Are we ever going to read anything happy in this class? I ponder this for a moment before answering, “No, I guess not.”. We begin by e...
