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This year (2025) finds me with 53 years of teaching “under my belt.” I have taught all levels from pre-K “(library lady” or “book lady”–volunteer) to juniors, seniors, and graduate students enrolled in my Advanced Writing class at the university where I have just completed 34 years. My first paying teaching job was junior high, and I spent 13 years with ages 12-13, the “difficult years.” I had some of the “funnest” experiences with this age group. When I was no longer the “young, fun teacher,” I taught in an elementary school setting before sixth graders went on to junior high, teaching language arts blocs, an assignment that was a “dream-fit” for me. After completing graduate school in my 40s, I went on to community college, then university teaching. This past fall I accepted a part-time teaching job at Apogee Gulf Coast Schools in its first year at the Alvin campus. After my Better Half died n 2022, I achieved a lifelong dream: opening a bookstore of my own, Rae’s Reads. A year later, I sold the house we had lived in for 47 years and moved into the bookstore. My goal is to circulate and repurpose books. Just as teaching is “in my blood,” so is a passion for reading, writing, libraries, and everything bookish. This blog will be open to anyone who loves books, promotes literacy and wants to “come out and play.”

Tuesday Teaser

“Tuesday Teaser is a bookish meme hosted by The Purple Booker.” I take this directly from my blogger friend who writes Brainfluff, a really great blog to follow with something for every taste in reading and anyone interested in life in the UK.  It is always fresh, sometimes funny, and her updates on what she has accomplished are amazing. The idea is to open your current read, pick a couple of sentences at random, being careful not to include any spoilers, and copy them here, giving the title and author as well.

I started reading Jeannette Walls’ Half Broke Horses during the Dewey’s marathon and was instantly hooked.  My Teaser comes from page 135 where I currently am reading.  It begins with the first sentences of the chapter:

“The following morning, as Rooster was getting ready to head back to Red Lake, he caught me alone in the kitchen…He looked at me a moment, ‘You know I always been carrying a torch for you’…He paused and then asked, ‘You think I’ll ever get married?’” The woman he is addressing, the author, is already married.

” ‘I do,’ I said.  I had just been being polite, but suddenly I saw it clearly…’You just got to look in unexpected places.”

This has been an attention grabber, interest keeper from the get-go, and I am hoping to steal some time from today’s demands to read a little more.  OR, is that what I just did? LOL

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    sjhigbee

    And you know that a book has thoroughly got its hooks into you when you start finding excuses to take more sips from it during the day:)). That sounds like an intriguing teaser and I’m delighted you like this one so much, Rae. And thank you so very much for all the kind things you’ve said about me and Brainfluff!xx

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