Geoffrey Sheehy considers teaching high school students a privilege and hopes to remain an English teacher until he retires at age 85. He and his wife have four children and live in the Black Hills of
I have a love affair with libraries. Growing up in a small New Hampshire town,
our library was more artifact than lending institution, but I liked it anyway.
It shared the property line
In an attempt to come alongside my daughter’s schoolwork, I have been reading
Robert Middlekauff’s The Glorious Cause, a survey of the American Revolution
published in the Oxford History of the
A Jew in Europe in the 1930s was a person without a home. A Jewish Pole, for
example, might have left for Germany in the 1920s to avoid Poland’s anti-Semitic
mood; but
Authorized Personnel Only: You must know the endings to Lord of the Flies and Of
Mice and Men to read beyond this sentence.
As a teacher I am fairly patient with students’ misbehavior.
Jesse Ball’s novels are odd. In The Way Through Doors, for example, the various
storylines layer so deeply I lose track of which is the core line. In The Curfew
, my favorite,
