If we tell them that they cannot make words out of their lives the repression they will suffer will inspire another Littieton. In all shapes, sizes, colors, religions, affiliations and attire, they are our kids. We must love, nurture and learn from them. Sorry if this sounds like a rant. Thanks for sharing this thought-provoking exercise.
Most people celebrate a Pulitzer with a blow-out champagne toast.
Not Maggie Edson. It's a school night. After all, her students are only 5 years old. Edson is the first kindergarten teacher to win a Pulitzer. It's a fiercely literary and funny story of an English professor with ovarian cancer, the kind of woman who assails her mortality with quotes from John Donne.