: About Me

A disenchanted teacher trying to break into publishing, Lara is a compassionate mother of three, wife to British ex-pat and the official go-to girl for curriculum and instruction on the faculty of her rural high school.

Lara's love of writing began very early in life where characters began to reveal themselves in intricate stories that were filed away in dusty notebooks. Lara's second love is teaching. Teaching middle-school Language Arts has been an enlightening and self-solidifying experience.

For fun, Lara reads, writes, shops, and spends time at various Arkansas lakes and scenic vistas.

My passion is ...

teaching

I know too much about ...

lesson plans, student teachers, diapers, dog hair and asperger's syndrome

My parents always told me ...

to do what is right, not what is easy

My childhood ambition ...

writer, marine microbiologist (what was I thinking?), confident

My favorite memory ...

giant golden sunset over the Mississippi delta farmland

Why I write ...

to teach, to explore, to express, to inform, to laugh, to define the world and myself

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading Terri Erwin's biography of her husband

My first job ...

waitress at Pizza Hut, man what a bummer

My best moment ...

this one

My inspiration ...

Ghandi, Bugs Bunny, my oldest son, my mom and Elizabeth I

Education > Teachers & Administrators What difference do teachers make?

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Only this morning, I found myself filling the role of nurse, Internet researcher, rape counselor, policeman, banker, short order cook, secretary,computer technician, political commentator and custodian all before 8:30 a.m. Obviously, I teach for a living. My simple classroom operates as command center for every possible issue that comes with children, be it related to Language Arts or not. An 8th grader arrived in my room this morning in floods of tears and riddled with guilt at having been sexually assaulted on a church bus. I had to sort through her feelings, offer advice, and try to rem...

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