ManhattanWhiteGirl's Blog
ManhattanWhiteGirl
- Birthday
- June 24
- Bio
- I teach high-school English in the Bronx. I live in Manhattan with my son. I write.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Four days without power or
water in Manhattan
November 04, 2012 10:12AM - Called on the carpet for
reading Junot Diaz in English
class
October 03, 2012 05:33AM - The false deadline of life
September 19, 2012 04:46AM - The mini-death of the end of
summer
August 31, 2012 08:00AM - NYC single mother and son go
camping—without a car
August 22, 2012 10:16AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Hello. I have the utmost
sympathy for you and your
family in
this situation. I
ha…”
November 17, 2012 09:05AM - “Well, I would just like
to express appreciation for
the
beautiful picture,
which…”
November 12, 2012 07:57AM - “Nicely done indeed. I
really enjoyed your
thoughtful
reflection, as well
as numer…”
October 28, 2012 02:51PM - “Okay. I did it. A
public-school-teacher-sized
contribution,
but a
contribution no…”
October 28, 2012 02:43PM - “What a beautiful
picture. Fall is glorious in
the Midwest.
Out here in NYC
we get…”
October 20, 2012 09:26PM
ManhattanWhiteGirl's Links
Four days without power or water in Manhattan
Called on the carpet for reading Junot Diaz in English class
The false deadline of life
It’s happening again, that sad and beautiful time of year. Every year when summer ends it feels as if my life is ending. I don’t know how I can go through the experience again and again because it’s always the same. But I don’t get used to it.… Read full post »
NYC single mother and son go camping—without a car
At the station in Hoboken, anticipating the glory of the trip
My 10-year-old son had wanted to go camping ever since a friend of ours gave him a little two-person tent about three years ago. I’d been using evasion tactics ever since. While he spent anticipatory moments plotting va… Read full post »
Is there hope for train travel in the U.S.?
Our first trip in 2010
Growing old: It ain’t that pretty at all
Fire Island—not just for the mega-rich
It takes a Midwesterner to teach you about New York. I had been in NYC for 16 years before I went to Fire Island for the first time last summer. I had heard about it, the same way I had… Read full post »
I’m totally single, but to me single isn’t a defining term. It’s just the way things happen to be at a given moment. I’ve been single a lot and for a while, but I haven’t always been. I… Read full post »
Just loving New York in July
As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of
Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the
roofs of houses toward the sky
– Walt Whitman
My 10-year-old son and I have perfected summer in NYC on the cheap. While others flee at the… Read full post »
No more burning bridges (school’s out for the summer)
Reading John Hersey’s Hiroshima
How I changed my philosophy of teaching and of life
When I first started as an NYC public school teacher five years ago I was all about academics. What I mean by that is I had to think for a really long time about what kind of teacher I wanted to be. I was an NYC Teaching Fellow… Read full post »
Why I was bizarrely happy when my rent went up
Our School Quality Review—thank god it’s over
A single mother, a new baby, and a changed world
There was a little gallery on 9th Avenue around the corner from my house and they hung pictures people had taken that had to do with 9/11. There were some unbelievable shots of the site, people on the street, firefighters and police, things that made your heart stop… Read full post »
Last week and the week before were testing weeks for grades three to eight in New York state. The week of 16th was the ELA (English Language Arts) test and last week was math. I teach 8th-grade ELA, in addition to 9th-grade ELA and 12th-grade AP English. I… Read full post »
Four days after 9/11 I took home a five-pound bundle in a taxi with my mom. My son was born on 9/10/01 in Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. I was in a room on the 12th floor and I could see the Twin Towers from my window. He was/… Read full post »
Jobs with benefits: The miracle of a good boss
I didn’t have a good boss until I was 46, except my supervisor when I taught in Japan, and I’m going to leave that out for now. I had a terrible experience with employment, which is ironic since I’d wanted to work since I was 10. I was… Read full post »
Our girls are beating the crap out of each other, and we wonder what’s going on. I’m an English teacher at a 6th – 12th grade public school in the Bronx and my colleagues and I are puzzling over what seems to be a dramatic rise in girl fights./… Read full post »
The Irish Times guy: Existentialism on an NYC street corner
The corner of 31st and 8th Avenue has got to be one of the most inauspicious-looking places in all of Manhattan. The main post office is to the left, and there’s nothing wrong with it; in fact it’s quite stately, if with an aura of very faded glory.… Read full post »
The political views of some Bronx 8th & 9th graders
My little boy was born on the day before 9/11. I was in Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan at 59th and 10th on the 12th floor when the planes hit the Twin Towers. You could see the towers straight from my window. People had been watching the news in the… Read full post »
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