Author: JenniferClaywood
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How I feel about teaching
Near the end of my second field experience, during the long commute to Lake Shore Middle School from my home, I started to compose a letter to my future urban students. I composed the letter in my mind, spoke the words to myself as I drove, and wrote them down when I arrived in the […]
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A sneak peak at “While Sleeping”
Trigger warnings: Gun violence. January 29, 2014 Youngstown, Ohio It was after midnight and Jakob and Cindy had just walked into their second bar. The entryway was slippery, the flimsy mat doing nothing to combat the snow the patrons were bringing in. They hung their coats and walked toward the bar, happy to see there […]
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Author?
When I was a teenager, I’d write with a wild abandon, immersing myself in short stories with morals and satisfying endings. I would write page after page of poems, compiling structured books of ramblings that no one would ever read. As life turned into paying bills as raising children, the writing took a back seat, […]
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About Me
I’m forty-something. Don’t ask me to do the math because I’m not about that life. Science, yes. Math? Noooooo. I’m coming to terms with my identity as a writer. An author. So far, so good. I’ve got a book. One book. But baby, there are more coming. And maybe they are complete and utter trash, […]
Jennifer Claywood 