Kristen Kehoe

In my AP Language class the first week of second semester, we read an excerpt from Mike Rose’s “Lives on the Boundary,” called “I Just Wanna be Average.”  It’s a brilliant story, one with meat on its bones as Rose takes us through the reality of being a kid who doesn’t feel comfortable--or accepted--at school, the armor we create to protect ourselves, and the reality of seeing “a handful of students far excel you in courses that sound exotic and are only in the curriculum of

I'm a month late...ha, in my twenties that would have been a horribly scary thing to say. Chalk one up for your forties, ammiright, girls? I didn't really have anything to say at the beginning of the new year--nothing I wanted to put into the universe, at least. Part of that comes from what feels like a constant stream of noise happening, and the fact that I didn't want to add to it, to be one more person who put out words that didn't have thought behind them--or positive int

I'm two days overdue writing this post, but that's okay, because we were actually together, sweating and laughing and spending the day...

This celebration post is a day late because Liv had a sleepover on Saturday, which means that on Sunday the only thing I was inspired to...