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Virtually Anything

Virtually Anything

January 5, 2022 · by Linda Strange · in USA

So Omicron has arrived with a vengeance and people have started using the dreaded “R” and “D” words again. They…

For the Kids

For the Kids

February 22, 2021 · by Linda Strange · in USA

So they want all the schools to be open again. In 100 days. Or sooner. Get those kids back in…

In the Virtual Trenches

In the Virtual Trenches

November 5, 2020 · by Linda Strange · in USA

At 10:45 every morning, one of my elementary ESL classes meets for half an hour online. There are five students…

We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties

We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties

June 27, 2020 · by Linda Strange · in USA

“Are we still going to do Google Meets over the summer?” one of my fifth-grade students asked me at eleven…

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July 2022
Watch a video of me reading a live version of my blog, The Last of the Best.
May 2022
I’m excited to announce three pieces of my writing have recently been published. What Ever Happened to Igor, an essay in Pangyrus, is about a study trip I took to Ukraine in 1985 with a group of Finns and Swedes. Igor was a young Ukrainian-Swedish man from Stockholm who was going to meet his father in Kyiv, a father he hadn’t seen in twenty years. Will They Make it Home Again?, another essay in Pangyrus, explores the relationship between the images of World War Two childhood evacuations recorded in select works of European literature and the images of evacuation we now see on our television screens from Ukraine.
Finally, The Longest Day, is a short story published in the 2022 Freshwater Literary Journal. It details the experience of a young non-English speaking Cape Verdean girl, Gee, on her first day in an American inner-city school. It is an account of Gee’s first encounter with her new ESL teacher and the safe space this teacher creates for Gee to express her true emotions. Watch a You Tube video of me speaking with Georbina DaRosa, the real-life inspiration for my story.

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