Word: taughtly
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...buying clothes (wait for end-of-season sales) and making your own snacks. "I grew up in poverty as the daughter of sharecroppers," says Kilgo, whose husband Randal, 55, retired in 1997 after 32 years with the U.S. Postal Service. "But my parents were smart and frugal and taught me how to save money. This kind of knowledge allowed us to retire early and still be secure financially." The Kilgos are earning about 80% to 90% of their previous income...
...came the inevitable question. What next? Topping his first novel would be hard, the risk of failure and I-told-you-so reviews high. But Wolfe found the challenge irresistible. "I was 57," he says, "and I thought the eight or nine years I'd spent on Bonfire had taught me what not to do the second time. So, I proceeded to make every blunder a beginning writer could stumble into...
Coming from a culturally rich but economically poor Roman Catholic farming family in Northern Ireland, a world that would pervade his early works and continues to haunt his writing, Heaney attended Queen's University, Belfast and taught at several other universities before ending up at Harvard, where he taught a poetry workshop every spring semester until he won the Nobel Prize...
These first few conversations at college and home were always defensive-I could never adequately explain why I wanted to go to Newark. I blamed it on simple idealism, little patience with another summer of long commutes and the widening gap between what was taught to me and what I wanted to learn. Having grown-up in the famously quiet suburbs of Ohio, I needed to get away from my past-if only for a summer of teaching reading and writing to children...
Museum lectures are a wonderful learningexperience "for someone who doesn't find sciencein formally taught classes accessible," saidCambridge resident Pamela M. Banks...