Highlighter

Freshman year of high school, my literature teacher gave us pop highlighter quizzes. We would trade books with the person sitting next to...

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Highlighter

Freshman year of high school, my literature teacher gave us pop highlighter quizzes. We would trade books with the person sitting next to...

Jun 272 min read

Ravenclaw

Hermione Granger should have been a Ravenclaw. The one thing we know about her at the beginning of the story – the only thing that seems...

Mar 224 min read

Rediscovering Romance

A version of this essay was published in the July 2025 edition of the Maryland Writers Association's Pen in Hand. Romance novels were my...

Sep 14, 202419 min read

What I Should Have Said

Jimmy and I kissed last night. A lot. And it was good. But that’s a story for another time. This is the story for the next day, when we...

Feb 16, 20244 min read

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My name is Carolyn, and for the past decade, I have worked as an educator in one form or another at high schools, universities, and nonprofit organizations in Nashville, Tennessee. I recently uprooted my life to move to Baltimore, which is about as far north as you can get without leaving the south, and vice versa.

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