I sat on the small bench across the classroom while a second grader patted my arm. “It’s okay, Mrs. B.” Emma said. The concern in her eyes only made me cry harder. I was student teaching in a general education setting that semester, and I loved those second graders from West Godwin Elementary. There were […]
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I left my beloved boarding school in Germany and my parents’ home on the field in France when I turned eighteen. I was headed to college in a new state in my passport country: Michigan. I was a little excited, but mostly terrified. I grieved my high school graduation like it was a death: never […]
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When I was seven, my parents walked away from everything they knew to become life-long missionaries to France. My dad had been a high school chemistry teacher and volleyball coach, my mom stayed at home with my me and my two siblings in our two bedroom house in southern California. Moving to France was both […]
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Sarah K. Butterfield 